Racing has lost one of the biggest names in the sport's history with the death of Lester Piggott at the age of 86. Piggott died peacefully in Switzerland May 29 after having been in hospital recently.

Lester Piggott, a jockey who won the English Derby nine times and saddled the legendary horse Nijinsky, has died, his family said Sunday. He was 86. Piggott died in a Switzerland hospital, his ...

Legendary jockey Lester Piggott has died aged 86, his son-in-law has said. Piggott, who won the Derby nine times, had been in hospital in Switzerland. During a career lasting almost 50 years, he rode ...

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, at ...

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 ...

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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 jockey 11 ...

Lester Piggott, Britain’s 11-time champion jockey, is recovering in intensive care at a Swiss hospital in Lausanne after he was hospitalized May 15 due to the recurrence of a heart problem that ...

LESTER Piggott may have lacked a few qualities during his stellar riding career but self-belief was never one of them. When Piggott won the 1969 Washington DC International – at the time one of the ...

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 like ...

From his first victory aged 12 to his last nearly 50 years later, jockey Lester Piggott was a ruthless winner who became a racing icon. Tall for a rider in flat racing, he spent much of his career on ...