Paddy's Rewards Club: Get a £10 free bet when you place 5x bets of £10+. It seemed like I was whacking them but it never was as bad as it looked.”, Could he have won the Derby on Roberto and The Minstrel if he had used a modern whip? We all get on.” Would he ever divorce Susan and marry Barbara? Open an account with Ladbrokes and place £10 in bets and you'll get £30 in free bets. “Or a fairytale. “Never thought about it.”, Piggott reacts to these invasive questions with rueful resignation. He wasn’t really a mile horse so we had to hold him back as long as possible.”, Piggott’s father, a former jump jockey who also won the Grand National as a trainer, was notoriously tough. Only one bonus can be used at a time, Sportsbook bonus must be wagered before using the Casino, unless the bonus has been forfeited. It’s all about how you feel [grinning]. Lester Keith Piggott (born 5 November 1935) is a retired English professional jockey. Lester’s career reached its peak at roughly the same time as betting shops were legalised in the UK in the early 60s. I finished second. Did his dad compliment him on any of his 4,493 victories? “Really. Who would do that?”, Piggott did something more unbelievable. . Did you see the Arc? Open an account with Ladbrokes and place £5 of bets, you'll get £20 in free bets. I expect we’ll end up doing something. Lester Piggott grins, reaches out for a handshake, seems remarkably cheerful for a man with one interview down and another to go, the same old questions, the same old answers, the same air of reverence on one side of the table and the same air of faintly amused detachment on the other. Min odds, bet and payment method exclusions apply. Only beaten once, at York when the ground was a bit soft and he ran too free in the early stages. Place a single £10 Sportsbook bet and get money back as a free bet if it loses. It is. Min £10 stake, win only, min odds 1/2, free bets paid as 2 x £15, 30 day expiry, free bet/payment method/player/country restrictions apply. T&Cs apply. What happened that day was nothing really. I can’t complain.”, Lester Piggott leans over and, with another small pat of my arm, he reminds me of one last salient truth. Lester Piggott interview after win on Royal Academy. “Are you South African?” he asks, looking deeply interested in his own question. Did you think anything else? When you’ve spent your whole life doing something it’s only right you have to help out a bit later on, you have to put a bit back. “But there’s only so much you can talk about.”, For tickets to Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot on 17 October go to www.britishchampionsseries.com, This article was amended to correct that it was Lester Piggott’s grandfather, not his father, who won three Grand Nationals. I think a lot of older people still remember me, I’m probably famous to them, but the younger ones wouldn’t really know who I am. Of all the top jockeys you rode with – Roger Poincelet, Jimmy Lindley, Bill Williamson, Pat Eddery, so many others – was he the one with whom you had the greatest rivalry? I got six months. A lot of people know I’m going to turn 80 – but I wish they didn’t.”, He is still married, after 55 years, to Susan. “Exactly. It wasn’t very fair. I could ride at 9st and still have plenty of winners. When I first started he was old then. You never think you’re going to be 80, do you – look at you, I expect you can’t imagine being 80. With a cunning pluck of the air he nicks my imaginary whip. And Frankie made a good move at the start, y’know. I am so surprised to end up having a conversation about South Africa that it takes a while to work out the Long Fellow has neatly shifted us on to a different track. Money back as bonus. You had your moments with the stewards, but nothing quite like what happened at Royal Ascot when you were a youngster. If you had a chance from the beginning of October onwards you put everything into it. How would you have managed in the modern era? Don’t make a fuss. But is it necessary to have the stewards’ inquiry on TV? “I don’t get recognised as much. They’ve done well to put all those races together.”, One of Piggott’s closest friends passed on a message that suggested the 366 days the jockey served of a three-year prison sentence, for failing to declare £3.25m in tax, softened him. Who else has won the Derby nine times, been stripped of his OBE and waged war against his own body so that he could scale 30 pounds less than his natural weight? Only deposits made via Credit/Debit Card will be eligible for the promotion. I ramble on about hardly being able to believe he will turn 80 next month. Bet Credits available for use upon settlement of bets to value of qualifying deposit. Min odds, bet and payment method exclusions apply. What do you think of today’s jockeys? Returns exclude Bet Credits stake. They didn’t do anything to him. You had to make him do it.”, Piggott underplays his savage use of the whip. Now and again, for big races. “You’ve had quite a life,” I say to the old jockey. “I saw it happen again last month. “I’ve always liked The Arc. And he really tried to be champion, he worked very hard. A Piggott interview is meant to be a challenge like no other. The best way to put it is that he’s a top-class horse owned by a top-class owner, trained by a top-class trainer and ridden by a top-class jockey. He had to be – those three races he won [the Derby, the Irish Derby and the King George] in the summer of 1977 were hard. That was the problem. “Well,” Piggott says, “it was important to win. I’m not sure about that – it was quite amusing, though. There is a long silence. The prospect of another interview, after a lifetime of such encounters, does not fill the great old jockey with glee. Min first £10 bet within 14 days of account reg at min odds 1/2 = 6 x £5 free bets. Up to £100 in Bet Credits for new customers at bet365. Once you were one of the most famous sportsmen in the world. ester Piggott, a dapper yet gaunt man, ghosts across the cold marble floor of a hotel in Mayfair with a vaguely haunted expression. Paypal & certain deposit & bet types excluded. [A long Lester pause] Nearly in the same class as Nijinsky, Mill Reef, Sea The Stars, that sort of horse, but not quite as good as them. Impossible to tell, isn’t it? It’s very nice of people to ask me to present awards and things. They just did what they liked really. That year it was him, he beat me by one. You’re over here to lend the people at Great British Racing a hand, to present the trophy to the new champion jockey at Ascot on Champions Day. It was in America – on the old track in Pennsylvania [when, during a race, a jockey, Angel Castillo, lost his own whip and then stole another belonging to Pierre Hernández Ortega]. [A Lester pause] Some of the boys could talk much better than others. It was almost inhumane. He’d win it, though, wouldn’t he? In the end they let me off a couple of months but it was still October before I came back, and then I had to take the weight off in just a few days. They’re very good riders. You got a very harsh punishment, a six-month ban. At first, to keep within the remit of a racing interview, I ask if Golden Horn offers any real evidence that horses today are better than any of his best rides from 50 years ago.

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