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Happy Birthday Lester Piggott
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From jockeypedia website...................................
Snowy had earlier got on the wrong side of Lester Piggott. Lester had been beaten on Music Boy - its only defeat in six outings - when trumped by Royal Boy the York Spring Meeting. Snowy was outspoken at the time in his criticism of Lester's handling of the colt, considering that Lester had failed to make the best of Music Boy's most potent weapon, his blinding speed. Snowy reportedly said to Lester after the race: 'You'll never ride for me again.' Lester replied: 'Well, I might as well pack it in, then.' |
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The word LEGEND(unwarranted) is banded about all too frequently nowadays for 1/2 decent sportsman, but certainly not in Lesters case.
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I have a huge framed signed picture of Lester in Ardross silks, wishing me happy birthday, its going with me when I go!!
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I loved it when a racing journalist asked him, ''At which point did you think you'd win ?''. God replied, ''About 6 weeks ago
The horse was the Bernard Van Cutsem trained Karabas in the 1969 Washington International. He repled "2 weeks ago". Sarcastic comedy at it's best. He also won the same race on Sir Ivor the previous year. |
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the greatest i have ever seen! sir lester !
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Lester had a great ability to relax as soon as he had finished riding for the day. I recall watching (and backing ) him winning the last at Sandown one Saturday and having parked near the entrance I sprinted to the car to get away quickly for a long drive home. Lester managed to weigh in, get in a car and beat me to the ice cream shop at Hampton Court bridge. He signed my racecard before heading to Heathrow to ride in Paris next day and looked like a kid on holiday. A true one off.
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Even in later years, i was at a midweek folkestone meeting , he rode a horse for (Simon Dow i think ) called Snow Blizzard, he won on it a couple of weeks earlier dictating the pace all the way,but in between it got beat when fav at kempton when ridden by Carson, the week after he rode it at folkestone and led all the way again like before ,and won even though it had much more weight, i said to him , whilst walking to our cars, that was as easy as last time you won on it, he said, i know, but don't tell Willie.. Don't know what he done but he was a genius
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Good jockey, but no more than that.
As pointed out by sparrow, he rode plenty of stinkers. |
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Andrew.
I believe the curt reply after Karabas had won, was a result of what happened the previous with Sir Ivor. Even though he won the Derby,Sir Ivor was really a 10 furlong horse. In the DC Lester dropped him out the back and rode him for speed. When he got up late to win,Lester was bombasted by the press,who said he was a 7lb penalty to a horse. In them days the american jockeys rode from the gate and Lester showed them how to ride a doubfull stayer. When he came back and won the race again,they realised how good he was. |
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He phoned Brian Rouse for a lift to Brighton one summer to save him money. It was a beautiful summers day and when leaving the course on the way back home, Lester says to Brian, "Take the second left 100yds up the road, there is a wee shop there that sells the best ice cream money can buy".
Brian does this. Lester returned and sat in the passenger seat licking this massive ice cream cone. "ffs Lester", says Rouse, "I drive you all the way from Newmarket and back and don`t take a penny off you for petrol money and you come back with one F****** cone"! Lester turns to Brian and says, "Sorry, I didn`t know that you liked ice cream"! |
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Dr Crippen 07 Nov 18 20:02
Good jockey, but no more than that. As pointed out by sparrow, he rode plenty of stinkers. Where did I say that, Dr Crippen? I merely repeated the Wainwright story which was not my opinion at all. |
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Nobody gets it right every time. Footballers miss open goals, cricketers get out for a duck without playing a shot, jockeys misjudge the pace or underestimate an opponent. If you ride like Lester often did and Richard Hughes did the same, they are riding for luck. It was interesting to hear the Hughes interview on Sunday when he was not even willing to discuss any "bad rides".
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Nijinsky x3
The Minstrel x2 Ardross Diesis? i think but got me with the black and white TMM @ Epsom looks a bit like Essa Alkhalifa colours from B & W ? |
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Watched him ride a race at Yarmouth years ago and he was behind a wall of 4 horses entering the final furlong.
He stuck his horses head between 1&2 then 2&3 then 3&4 before finally coming on the outside to win by 2 lengths. Just could not believed what I’d just witnessed. He was like a magician in the saddle. |
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Forgot Sir Ivor?
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B&W photo is Roberto I think.
The coolest horseman we will ever see, just a pure genius. Even in his mid 50's he was utter class, his ride on Rodrigo de Triano in the 92 Guineas was just poetry |
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Well done geoff. Saritamer (another good horse associated with Lester) is right with Roberto beating Rheingold in Derby.
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Had a £50 Anti-post win double on Roberto to win the Derby at 4/1 and Patricia's Hope at 16/1 to win the Greyhound Derby in 1972.
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Cheers.
My fav Lester ride was Commanche Run in Benson & Hedges(Juddmonte) @ York on a proven stayer on a speed track beating the speedier types in Oh SO Sharp and Triptych. Just kept winding it up in front . Superb judgement of pace to keep upping the ante and drawing the turn of foot away from the 2 great fillies. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMoGfpi914I
After this brilliant ride on Vacarme at Goodwood the stewards scandalously threw it out and the notoriously obnoxious Daniel Wildenstein said Lester would never ride any of his horses again. Someone with so little understanding of the game should never have been in it in the first place |
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As pointed out by sparrow, he rode plenty of stinkers.
Sorry about that sparrow. I find it nauseating the hero worship that's lavished on this good jockey. He rode plenty of stinkers just like any other jockey, and rode plenty of races to perfection just the same as other jockeys do. They're all only as good as the horses they ride. |
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Lester's defence team tried to make out that he was not mentally 100% due bangs on the head from falls.
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Dr Crippen, Imho you're wrong been hundreds of great jockeys in last 200 years but only a handful can be called legends and that goes for all sports. Pick a sport? Snooker Fred?Steve Davis legends but I know they went in off, Golf Jack Nicholas went in the water more than once, football Ronaldo missed sitters and a few penalties, tennis roger saw him miss a few last week does that mean he's average??
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Happy Birthday to a Living Legend.
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Happy Birthday long fella. Hope there is many more to come.
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