Lester Piggott was so competitive that it would have rankled that he never quite reached 5,000 winners. He got close with 4,493 victories in a remarkable career that saw him crowned champion ...

The only thing known to millions of people about the sport of horse racing is the name of Lester Piggott. To the unversed, his was the name on countless betting slips in successive runnings of the ...

who is married to Piggott’s daughter, Maureen, told the PA news agency: “Sadly we can confirm that Lester died peacefully in Switzerland this morning. I really don’t wish to add much more ...

There was a time when Lester Piggott was as famous in this country as George Best, Pele and Muhammad Ali. He was reverentially namechecked in songs by Van Morrisson and Chas ‘n’ Dave and soaps ...

Lester Piggott, whose 11 jockey championship titles and a record nine English Derby wins made him Britain’s most successful jockey of the late 20th century, died May 29 at a hospital in Geneva.

NINE time Epsom Derby winning jockey Lester Piggott has died at the age of 86, according to his son-in-law. The British sporting icon, said to be the Queen's favourite jockey, passed away in ...

Lester Piggott, whose Classic haul included nine Derby victories, has died at the age of 86. Unquestionably one of the greatest jockeys of all time, Piggott rode his first winner, The Chase ...

Lester Piggott was without doubt the finest jockey of his generation, and probably of any that has gone before or since. Tall for a jockey at over 5ft 7ins, ‘The Long Fellow’, as he became ...

Piggott's last win came at the age of 58 Legendary jockey Lester Piggott, who won the Derby a record nine times, has died aged 86. The Englishman won 30 British Classic races in a career which ...

By Richard Sandomir Lester Piggott, one of Britain’s greatest jockeys, who won nearly 4,500 races on his native soil but whose yearlong imprisonment for tax fraud in the 1980s detoured the ...

Legendary jockey Lester Piggott, who won the Derby a record nine times, has died aged 86. The Englishman won 30 British Classic races in a career which yielded 4,493 winners. He also had 116 Royal ...

Legendary flat race jockey Lester Piggott has died aged 86, his son-in-law said on Sunday. The nine-time Epsom Derby winning jockey was admitted to hospital in Switzerland last weekend.