Lester Piggott was born in 1935, the son of Keith Piggott, who was a successful national hunt jockey and a Grand National trainer. Keith’s father before him, Ernest Piggott was a champion jockey and won the Grand National three times and founded one great horseracing dynasty and joined it with another when he married Margaret Cannon, a descendant of Sam Day, three times winner of the Derby and sister of jockeys Mornington and Kempton Cannon. This of course all adds up to a pretty impressive introduction to the world of horseracing, and it can most definitely be stated that Lester has horseracing in his blood, and it was of course natural for Lester to have started horseriding from a very early age. He rode his first race winner at the Chase at Haydock Park at the age of 12 and rode his first Epsom Derby winner, Never Say Die in 1954 at the age of 18 ? they youngest person to ever win the event.
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