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We are very pleased to be able to offer you our range of signed Lester Piggott memorabilia. All photos are from official signing sessions.
Your Piggott signed memorabilia will come with a Certificate of Authenticity featuring an image of Lester signing one of the product line at the session, and with the date and location of where and when the signing took place.
Lester Keith Piggott was born on November 5, 1935 in Wantage, Oxfordshire
With 4,493 career wins, including nine Epsom Derby victories, he is one of the most well-known English flat racing jockeys of all time. He was popularly known as "The Long Fellow"
Piggott began racing horses from his father's stable when he was 10 years old and won his first race in 1948, aged 12 years, on a horse called The Chase at Haydock Park. A teenage sensation, he rode his first winner of the Epsom Derby on Never Say Die in 1954 aged 18 years and went on to win eight more, on Crepello (1957), St. Paddy (1960), Sir Ivor (1968), Nijinsky (1970), Roberto (1972), Empery (1976), The Minstrel (1977) and Teenoso (1983)
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. He was unusually tall for a jockey (5ft 8in/1.73m), which earned him his nickname of "The Long Fellow"
The annual jockey awards The Lesters, inaugurated in 1990, are named in his honour
