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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iconic jockey Lester Piggott is dead aged 86 after battling heart problems – 48 hours after his daughter said he was on the mend ...

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 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 ...

The death at 86 of Lester Piggott feels like not just the passing of a sporting icon, but of an era. Piggott was 12 years old when riding his first winner, The Chase, at Haydock Park in August 1948 ...

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 ...

Philip Oliver, beloved husband, brother, and son, died Feb. 19, in Indiantown, Fla. He was born June 6, 1970, in Chipping Norton, England, to his loving mother and father, Alison and Alan Oliver. An ...