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Lester Keith Piggott (born 5 November 1935) is a retired English professional jockey. With 4,493 career wins, including nine Epsom Derby victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest flat racing jockeys of all time and the originator of a much imitated style. Popularly known as "The Long Fellow" he was known for his competitive personality, keeping himself thirty pounds under his natural weight, and on occasion not sparing the whip on horses such as Nijinsky. Piggott regarded Sir Ivor as the easiest to ride of the great winners.〔(About the Home of Racing )〕〔(Lester Piggott to open New Wiltshire Stand at Salisbury )〕Lester Piggott at 80, 35 and 12 years old.〔Lester Piggott: ‘A lot of people know I’m going to turn 80 – but I wish they didn’t’ | Sport | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/oct/13/lester-piggott-80-jockey-interview-racing#img-1〕〔Lester Piggott | Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/lester-piggott-on-nijinsky-ii-winners-of-the-st-leger-news-photo/110680152〕〔Before They Were Famous | Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/british-jockey-lester-piggott-aged-12-reading-his-favourite-news-photo/2716462〕 ==Family background and personal life== Lester Piggott was born in Wantage to a family that could trace its roots as jockeys and trainers back to the 18th century.〔p45, David Boyd, A Bibliographical Dictionary of Racehorse Trainers in Berkshire 1850–1939 (1998)〕 The Piggotts were a Cheshire farming family who in the 1870s ran the Crown Inn in Nantwich for at least 40 years. Lester's grandfather Ernest (Ernie) Piggott (1878–1967) owned a racehorse stable at The Old Manor in Letcombe Regis and his father (Ernest) Keith Piggott (1904–1993) another at South Bank in Lambourn, where Lester lived until 1954.〔 Ernie Piggott rode three Grand National winners, in 1912, 1918 and 1919 and was married to a sister of the jockeys Mornington Cannon and Kempton Cannon, who both rode winners of the Derby, in 1899 and 1904 respectively. He was also three-times British jump racing Champion Jockey (in 1910, 1913 and 1915). Keith Piggott was a successful National Hunt jockey and trainer, winning the Champion Hurdle as a jockey in 1939 and the Grand National as a trainer in 1963 with Ayala, becoming the British jump racing Champion Trainer of the 1962–63 season. Lester Piggott is the cousin, through his mother Lilian Iris Rickaby, of two other jockeys, Bill and Fred Rickaby. Fred Rickaby was British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1931 and 1932. Piggott is married to Susan Armstrong. They married at St. Mark's church, North Audley Street, London in 1960. Her father, Sam Armstrong, and her brother, Robert Armstrong, were both racehorse trainers. They have two daughters, Maureen, an ex-eventer (married to Derby-winning trainer William Haggas) and Tracy (a sports presenter on Irish television station RTÉ). He also has a son, Jamie, from a relationship with Anna Ludlow.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview: Lester Piggott )〕 His house is named after a famous racehorse from history—Florizel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lester Piggott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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