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	Lester Piggott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lester Keith Piggott (born 5 November 1935) was an English jockey, considered to be the best of his generation and one of the greatest flat jockeys of all time.
		Piggott won his first race in 1948, aged 12 years, on a horse called The Chase at Haydock Park.
		Known as the "housewives' favourite", Piggott had legions of followers and did much to expand the popularity of horse racing beyond its narrow, class-based origins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lester_Piggott (348 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lester Piggott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lester Keith Piggott (born on Guy Fawkes' day 1935) was an English jockey, considered to be the best of his generation and one of the greatest flat jockeys of all time.
		Piggott, daughter of legendary jockey Lester Piggott, swam from Finavarra Point in county Clare to Ladies' Beach in Salthill as part of a fund-raising campaign for the John Durkan Leukaemia Trust.
		Piggott was amazed by the reception she got when she came out of the water on Tuesday - because of the delay in her arrival, she assumed everyone would have gone home.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lester-Piggott (1088 words)

	The Observer \| Sport \| Interview: Lester Piggott
		Sitting in the lounge of his Newmarket home, Lester Piggott is as cool and collected as he was in the saddle, the composed exterior concealing an extravagant genius that dominated British racing for almost half a century, an icon recognised simply by his Christian name.
		Piggott's light touch could be matched by a shade of violence, and the victory of Roberto in 1972 was the most controversial of his Derbies.
		Lester had a reputation for easing his rivals out of the saddle, but, for once, Piggott was wrongly blamed by the press and public.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /osm/story/0,6903,481543,00.html (3126 words)

	The Observer \| Sport \| Horse racing: Lester Piggott, king of the Derby
		Lester was so tired he could barely walk and, standing on the scales, realised that he had lost half a stone and was down to 7st 12lb.
		Lester was 'the supreme artist plying his craft from the saddle, his genius as sublime as that of a Rembrandt or a Beethoven, and his accomplishments on the same plane.
		Piggott had ridden many times for the Duke, notably on the brilliant mare Park Top, on whom he was narrowly beaten in the 1967 Arc de Triomphe (and still blames himself for her defeat).
	observer.guardian.co.uk /sport/story/0,6903,1227699,00.html (3285 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 23 \| 1987: Lester Piggott jailed for three years
		Piggott was jailed after failing to declare income to the Inland Revenue of £3.25m.
		Piggott, whose personal fortune is estimated at £20m, is said to have used different names to channel his earnings in secret bank accounts in Switzerland, the Bahamas, Singapore and the Cayman Islands.
		Lester Piggott won the Epsom Derby nine times and became the youngest ever to win the event in 1954 at the tender age of 18.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/low/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_3755000/3755282.stm (527 words)

	Teenoso with Lester Piggott - a picture by Sue Wingate
		Although Teenoso had won the Derby with ease, his win was largely attributed to his ability to handle the unusually soft ground at Epsom and the horse was never given the credit he really deserved after his fine victory.
		However, it did provide Lester Piggott with the opportunity to ride his last winner of the Derby.
		Lester rode the horse in all his major races and knew him well.
	www.field-galleries.co.uk /teenles.htm (260 words)

	BBC SPORT \| FUNNY OLD GAME \| Clash of the Titans
		Lester Piggott's record at Epsom includes nine successes in the Derby, as well as a trio of Arc de Triomphes during a career that started soon after the war, and is, kind of, still underway.
		The nine Piggott Derbies at Epsom were among a record total of 30 British Classics, the last of which was achieved on Rodrigo de Triano in the 2000 Guineas of 1992 when the rider was aged 56.
		For Lester to retire aged 50, start training, spend a year in prison for tax offences and then resume his riding career at 54 and win the Breeders' Cup Mile on Royal Academy within a few weeks, is as staggering as those Classics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/funny_old_game/1594128.stm (1232 words)

	Piggott, Lester Keith - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Piggott, Lester Keith
		A champion jockey 11 times between 1960 and 1982, he rode a record nine Derby winners.
		Piggott retired from riding in 1985 and took up training.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Piggott,+Lester+Keith (167 words)

	Piggott, Lester Keith on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		PIGGOTT, LESTER KEITH [Piggott, Lester Keith] 1935-, British jockey.
		KING OF EPSOM HOLDING COURT; EXCLUSIVE: Piggott is still the greatest, 50 years after his first Derby win.
		Jagger is like the Lester Piggott of rock.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-P1iggott.asp (365 words)

	News articles for Piggott, Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Former mayors Gail Piggott, a school teacher, and Tom Shope, a grocer, and former council member Norwin Dixon, a certified public accountant, are among the...
		Lester Piggott took the award in 2000, followed by Vincent O'Brien in 2001 and the Queen in 2002.
		With Lester Piggott often in the saddle, O’Brien sent out Classic winner after winner from his Ballydoyle stables, and Magnier was first manager, and later...
	www.linkmorgue.org /united_states/full/Arkansas/Piggott.html (2153 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Columnists \| Why not Lester?
		In particular, Piggott was instrumental in the Derby victories of Roberto and The Minstrel.
		And it was undoubtedly blasé of Piggott to have attempted to have paid off his debts to the Inland Revenue with a cheque drawn on an account that he had somehow forgotten to declare to them.
		Piggott is the only one who could argue that he was probably the best in the world for three decades.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /columnists/theobserver/story/0,10541,1106873,00.html (1197 words)

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		Lester also rode an awesome finish in the 1985 Irish Champion Stakes on Commanche Run which was logged in racings annuals, to be remembered for the future, some said it was on a par with the ride he gave Sir Ivor in the English Derby.
		Lester Piggott then went on to beat the record of Sir Gordon Richards of 5300 winners he also road his first DERBY winner in 1954 at the tender age of 18, by the most aptly named names of all time,!!
		Lester recalled: "We shared some great days-and if Vincent ever makes a comeback, I hope he doesn't forget me!" this was greeted with laughter and applause.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /john.a.rickards/page6.htm (1019 words)

	Channel 4 Television - Racing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Piggott's partial deafness and speech impediment made him appear a diffident, unintelligent man, however his acumen on the track was of Einstein-like proportions.
		Piggott's problem was that Precipice Wood was one of the gamest and most courageous of horses.
		IF Lester Piggott hadn't been born, there would be no doubt about who was the greatest jockey of the 20th century, Sir Gordon Richards.
	www.channel4.com /sport/racing_c4/jockeys.html (4331 words)

	Lester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lester came from friends who gave me the choice of the litter of 3 kittens.
		I got Lester on Derby Day in 1983 and vowed to name him after the winner of the main race, however I could not bring myself to stand at the back door in the evening calling "Tinoso" so he was named instead after the winning jockey, Lester Piggott.
		Lady took immediate exception to Lester, jumping on him from behind and trying to bite his neck, not the sort of behaviour you would expect from a "lady".
	www.calmingtouch.co.uk /cats/Lester.html (359 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London
		Lester was part of an overseas jockeys' team on a tour of the Far East in the early Eighties and, having grabbed a few words with him at the track in Penang, he offered to give me a lift back to the hotel where we were staying.
		When Lester originally retired, on October 29, 1983, after riding Full Choke to victory in a race worth a mere £1,389 at Nottingham, we all thought that we had seen the last of the 'longfella'.
		Knowing Lester Piggott was helpful in my work, but on one occasion it nearly got me in hot water.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=109527 (994 words)

	Glossary: Piggott, Lester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lester Piggot was arguably the most famous English jockey of all time.
		He rode his first winner at age 12 in 1948, was a champion jockey in England 11 times and won the nation's most prestigious flat race, the Derby, a record nine times between 1954 and 1983.
		The scandal meant that the honor bestowed on him by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975, the Order of the British Empire (OBE), was taken away.
	www.harbour.sfu.ca /~hayward/van/glossary/piggott.html (136 words)

	Green Umbrella Sport & Leisure Ltd Lester Piggott - His Classic Story (DVD)
		Lester Piggott is the greatest jockey the world has ever known.
		However in 1990 at the age of 54, Lester stunned the racing world by resuming his riding career after completing a two year prison sentence.
		Like everything else in Lester's riding life, his comeback was triumphant, culminating in his 30th and final Classic success on Rodrigo de Triano, appropriately owned by Robert Sangster.
	www.greenumbrellashop.co.uk /acatalog/Home_Page_Lester_Piggott___His_Classic_Story__DVD__1214.html (322 words)

	LESTER PIGGOTT- Biography - Lester Return Of a Legend - By John Karter - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		LESTER PIGGOTT- Biography - Lester Return Of a Legend - By John Karter -
		By talking to many of Piggott's closest associates and friends, and obtaining stories previously unpublished, John Karter has built up a fascinating portrait of this most enigmatic of men, contrasting the way he was before his retirement and imprisonment with the 'new Piggott.
		The book is enhanced by many superb action photographs, spanning the forty-four years of Lester's remarkable career.
	www.biography-clarebooks.co.uk /item3114.htm (106 words)

	Lester Piggott - Reviews on RateItAll
		Lester Piggott is one of the United Kingdoms most famous jockeys.
		Lester Piggott won the prestigious Epsom Derby 9 times between 1954 and 1983.
		Lester Piggott raced to victory in races in the UK more than 4,000 times and had many other victories around the world.
	www.rateitall.com /i-29499-lester-piggott.aspx (124 words)

	Ananova - Piggott to ride again
		Lester Piggott is to ride again - on the day before he officially becomes an old aged pensioner.
		Piggott, who rode his first winner at the age of 12, is taking part in the Emirates Airline Legends Race.
		Piggott is already tuning himself up as he tries for his first win at Flemington racecourse.
	www.ananova.com /sport/story/sm_75759.html (299 words)

	News - 30 July 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mr Durkan, a 32-years-old jockey and close friend of Piggott, died in January of this year after losing his battle with leukaemia.
		Piggott hit on the idea of swimming underwater across Galway Bay while attending his wake.
		Her famous father was in Clare to see her off in the morning, but because of commitments in England he was not able to greet her when she arrived back on terra firma in Salthill.
	www.galwayadvertiser.ie /news/980730/page12.htm (697 words)

	Lester Piggott : Lester Piggott His Classic Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	www.video-dvd.org /lester-piggott-%3A-lester-piggott-his-classic-story.html (821 words)

	Masdecaballos.com - Personajes - Lester Piggott
		Desde que debutara a los 12 años, Lester tuvo que iniciarse en esta sacrificada actividad, levantándose a las 6.30 a.m.
		La suerte de Piggott, que había empezado a ganar peso alarmantemente, gira bruscamente a su favor.
		Piggott ha tenido detractores por las causas apuntadas; por montar demasiado corto; o ser excesivamente taciturno, materialista, etc. En lo que todos parecen coincidir en cuanto a lo profesional, es en su facilidad para adaptar lo más óptimamente posible su centro de gravedad, al que le requiere su caballo en la plena acción de galopar.
	www.masdecaballos.com /articulo_personajes.cfm?id=7 (1471 words)

	Lester's Derbys by Lester Piggott with Sean Magee
		Lester's Derbys by Lester Piggott with Sean Magee
		Lester Piggott is the greatest Derby jockey of all time.
		His nine winners in the world's greatest race form one of the most glorious and unassailable records in all sport, and the horses he rode to victory include legends of the Turf such as Nijinsky, Sir Ivor, The Minstrel and Roberto.
	www.methuen.co.uk /lestersderbys.html (209 words)

	Lester Piggott, the Greatest Jockey ever ! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Only slowly was I to appreciate that Lester would always be the first to know when he was beaten.
		Lester was sometimes summoned by foreign stewards, for no real reason, so that they could relate to their friends what it was like afterwards.
		Lester Piggott presenting Pat Eddery with "his"award at the 2004 Lesters
	www.jockeysroom.com /itm00138.htm (401 words)

	Jockey's Life: The Biography of Lester Piggott by Dick Francis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Piggott, Britain's top rider for some three decades, retired in 1985 at age 50 and is now a trainer.
		Within a decade, Piggott was the most successful rider in England, a situation that continued for years, until he began to tire of merely amassing victory statistics.
		Piggott has had his difficulties: severely hearing-impaired since birth, he suffered numerous injuries, and he always had trouble with his weight.
	www.ffbooks.co.uk /x1/x7027.htm (245 words)

	Lester Piggott
		Champion jockey Lester Piggott in horse racing art prints by Peter Deighan and Stuart McIntyre, available from sportsgallery.co.uk.
		Legendary jockey Lester Piggott in the colours of the late Lord Howard de Walden, for whom he rode 39 winners.
		The print is signed by the artist and by Lester Piggott and proportion of the proceeds will be contributed to the Sir Peter O'Sullevan Charitable Trust.
	www.sportsgallery.co.uk /piggott.htm (651 words)

	Piggott Dating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Piggott is well suited for his city hall assignment...
		Stuart Piggott (1910-1996) was a British archaeologist most well known for his work on prehistoric Wessex.
		Lester Piggott recorded eight victories in the St Leger and if all his winners had raced together, Ribero would not have troubled the judge.
	www.adatingagency.co.uk /personals2/datingindex5264.html (623 words)

	LESTER PIGGOTT TO OPEN NEW WILTSHIRE STAND AT SALISBURY ON JUNE 23
		Racing legend Lester Piggott will be at Salisbury on Thursday, June 23, to officially open the racecourse's new £1.1 million Wiltshire Stand, which incorporates an owners & trainers bar, improved tote betting facilities, two new corporate suites and an open-terraced roof bar.
		It was one of Lester's ancestors, a Cannon of Stockbridge, who built the racecourse.
		Piggott, who was champion jockey 11 times, liked riding Salisbury and had a good deal of success at the track, especially in the early years of his career, with his first course winner being on Alizarene over a mile in the Southern Handicap on July 6, 1950.
	www.salisburyracecourse.co.uk /press/news25.html (765 words)

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