‘Everyone’s hero’: tributes pour in for racing legend Lester Piggott
Lester Piggott – a life in pictures
Sportblog
How Lester Piggott beat the odds to become the punters’ best friend
Sportblog
Lester Piggott: a rare talent who left his mark on an audience of millions
Lester Piggott, the outstanding jockey of the postwar era, dies aged 86
April 2021
Talking Horses
Talking Horses: Lester Piggott and Frankel join Flat racing Hall of Fame
Piggott won 30 British Classics between 1954 and 1992, and his record of 116 winners at Royal Ascot is also still a record
May 2017
Racing news and tips: Rivet sets out to secure French Derby
Lester Piggott will be at Chantilly to watch Rivet, his French 2,000 Guineas third, run in the Prix du Jockey-Club
December 2016
Walter Swinburn obituary
Jockey who rode Shergar to a spectacular victory in the 1981 Derby
October 2016
Andrea Atzeni wins fourth successive Racing Post Trophy as Rivet impresses
Yucatan, the well-backed favourite for the Racing Post Trophy, had no answers to Rivet who was given a masterful ride by Andrea Atzeni to land the Doncaster showpiece for trainer William Haggas
June 2016
Jockey Lester Piggott's great uncle appeared as a character in James Joyce's Ulysses
As readers celebrate the day on which Joyce’s novel takes place, a study of real-life people in the book reveals Morny Cannon to be Piggott’s relative
November 2015
Pat Eddery obituary
One of the greatest jockeys of all time who rode more than 4,600 winners and went on to become a trainer
October 2015
Lester Piggott: ‘A lot of people know I’m going to turn 80 – but I wish they didn’t’
The racing great, who will be guest of honour at Ascot on Saturday, looks back on the highs and lows of his remarkable career and gives his opinion of the horses of today. He talks to Donald McRae
July 2013
Lester Piggott's son Jamie has first ride at Killarney on Thursday
Young jockey will take the mount on Pivotal Rock for Tipperary trainer Tommy Stack
June 2013
Sir Henry Cecil obituary
Champion British racehorse trainer whose career was crowned by the success of Frankel
March 2013
Cheltenham Festival 2013, day one – in pictures
Award winning photographer Tom Jenkins brings you the very best images from the first day of racing at the Cheltenham Festival
November 2011
Nicola Jennings's caricatures
Lester Piggott
Nicola Jennings
retired jockey
May 2011
Why Frankie Dettori is more focused on the 2011 Oaks than the Derby
Frankie Dettori, winner of the 2007 Derby, tells Donald McRae he might have been sitting on the favourite at Epsom on Saturday but Sheikh Mohammed gave Carlton House to the Queen
