Lester: A Man Bred to Race (1985, BBC) Lester Piggott Tribute with Tom Conti, by Frank Keating

[@NickOToole-jb6dm]

GENIUS= An Extraordinary Natural Instinctive Ability That’s what LESTER Had and what Precious Few Jockeys ever had before or since

[@williammitchell9974]

What A Documentary, Thee Voice Of Racing Did Not Belittle Lester In. Any Shape Or Form , CLASSIC,Admiration Of This Horseman Is Evident.

[@iansmith587]

Great documentary thanks.

[@davidhenrywall8619]

Brilliant jockey the best

[@martinwilliamdavies7977]

I love and miss Lester because he was A bloody roague and he couldn't care less. It gave him wealth and success in life. Nothing wrong with that. So what if he screwed people over, that's life. He loved his family and provided and loved them. And eventually he got caught out and paid the price and just got on with it. Came back to race riding in his early fifties when I as an impressionable young man saw how great he was riding and still winning classics and Royal Ascot winner's when in reality he should be retired or training or A bloodstock agent. That's where the money is.

[@jimmymalone9139]

This it top class. Thanks. As a racing man

[@KernowekTim]

The Master of the flat. GBNF. Ride. In. Peace, Lester and, "Thank you,"

[@sionrouge1697]

The greatest....THE MASTER

[@johnnybongo100john8]

My grandad saw him ride his first winner at Haydock. 👍🏻

[@davidrobinson2776]

I love the little smile when he talks about his legendary deafness. Brian Taylor once said despite his hearing problems, Lester could hear a fiver being dropped on the weighing room floor from the paddock.

[@roberttalbot6397]

He sat up really high on his horses, his bum sticking up in the air,I was only young watching him with my dad at chester,my first racecourse I went too,just seeing them names on the jockey board, L.piggott,W Carson,P eddery,S,cauthen, just his style sitting up top,his hands perfectly in place,I was fascinated, he told everyone who seen him riding, he was really really good, I mean a jockey who really good,exceptionally good I mean,he knew what horses he wanted to ride,cos Lester knew what would win,especially group 1,s, he farmed these races,

[@Minime163]

That's because he was so tall for a flat jockey he had to ride like that to balance himself and take as much weight as possible off the horse

[@roberttalbot6397]

@@Minime163 yes,it worked out for the best, some jockey wasn,t he

[@harddriven1344]

20:30 This part was very revealing.

[@debracrew3261]

Well he might of been a good jockey but i think today he would of been banned quite a few times for excessive use of the whip, he didnt half beat the horses which he rode.

[@kevinsimpson8686]

He sure did know how to get his horse to the winning post first….and we punters were glad he was such a tyrant with his whip because he was everyone’s favourite jockey and Lester got them to win races that no other jockey before or since could ever do. I miss the guy so much. Lester needed horse racing…but not as much as horse racing needed Lester. He was a star and an enigma. Every other jockey is put in the shade by the sheer brilliance of the grandmaster himself, Lester Piggott. RIP great man

[@KernowekTim]

Gettawy lass. It's a tiny wee whip and a mighty big hoss. Sometimes they need a sting t'get them to perform best when they 'think' they can not. If t'was too much for them, they'd soon have had him off and been trying to stomp him dead. Every generation grows weaker, but them hoss's don't seem t'. I was caned hard as a lad. I had a wilfull side, just like a hot hoss. I got me seven 'O' levels at the end of it. Without that cane I'da been expelled to a bad-track. I was caned till I bled, a time or two, Lester never cut a hoss. Not once.

[@michaeledwards3578]

A meanie

[@peterneefs2192]

In 1980 or 81 , Lester was here in Ostend, Belgium. At that time I was still a jockey. I had the special honor of starting next to him in the starting boxes. He didn't look left or right, he was focused on one thing... the start. He didn't win that race, but that moment, racing together in the same race as Lester, will remain in my memory forever.. What a man!!

[@pipersson9258]

*Lester was hated by fellow jockeys, he phoned trainers of horses he thought would win and offered them his services- the other jockey lost the mount and riding fees. I once saw a young girl age 7, ask for his autograph at Epsom he took her scrap of paper and threw it on the ground, and strode away. Bill Shoemaker was the world's top jockey and a gentleman. One day the book will appear called The True Story of Lester Piggot.*

[@dougreed2257]

Wow what a joy you are🙄, at Newcastle races in 1978 my brother obtained an autograph from Lester, he was as :nice as ninepence'i spoke to him an hour later, albeit briefly but he was very pleasant, not saying it didn't happen, but mostly he was OK with autograph hu tets, not nice what he did, perhaps he had a very badday🤔

[@jimmymalone9139]

ARE YOU A BAGPIPERS SON. ?

[@philipbanner4642]

Garbage.

[@joebrolley3480]

I met Lester in 1973 where I was apprentice to Neville Callaghan as the smallest in the yuard and lightest so Erick eldin god rest Erick taught me to r along side taffy Thomas and kipper lynch I was taught to ride and break the horses in at my weight I was 5 and halfstone left Callahan as he liked to be ruthley and attack all his apprentice jockeys for many years nothing but a brutal bully so i ditched Callahan he is known as nasty Neville in racing and he was that's a fact little did he know that the great jockey and in my view the best ever jockey in the world Mr Lester piggot offered me a job as his apprentice jockey knowing that he de become a trainer training on Hamilton road in the bran new yuard wow the facilities were amazing I thought hard of this offer hard decision it was I chose love before s career as a very good light weight jockey to the absolute a master legend of a jockey u will ever see for generations the fantastically with a really nice man whom I spoke too a few time lovely person to rest in peace ✌️ sir Lester n god bless Joseph brolly a god in the saddle for ever and ever thank you Lester for all the excitement and joy u brought to the whole world wowgod bless youxxx

[@christophedallaporta8836]

Nowadays, jockeys rely on agents who make up their minds what horses should win before they start calling unless trainers or assistant trainers call them up first. Under contract jockeys has become quite as rare as big owners and classical silks . I chanced to see him quite a few times being a racing photographer for the best of 20 years. On a racing day at Claire fontaine (right next to Deauville racecourse)in the jockeys room cash asmussen offered him a candy bar off his bag which was literally full of them just before heading off to the paddock Lester simply turned it down .much later , at the time he made his comeback i remember him getting off his mount at Longchamp. He wouldn't have blown a candle! He was 57 at the time. His riding style was unbelievable and had a deep impact on the new generation of jockeys who trained themselves to ride on increasingly short stirrups. The only active living rider who molded himself on Lester Piggott is called gerald Mossé who was runner up in the prix de Diane at chantilly yesterday. Lester Piggott was everybody 's hero. No disrespect for all the great names who competed against him.

[@petercollins2828]

A Master of his trade, but I didn’t like the fact, he poached other Jockeys rides. They also had Family to feed.

[@kevinsimpson8686]

Don’t forget that Lester got so pissed -off at being accused of stealing rides that he went freelance and left it to the owners to pick who rode their horses. Did it make any difference? Of course not. He was the very best and every owner and trainer and jockey knew it. That’s why he was still the best at 54 years old and went to the States to give them all a lesson in how to win races as an old man. Lester… you were, are, and always will be the very best jockey of all time. Thanks for all the very many races I have of you on dvd winning every big race you did. Irreplaceable and unique. Cheers Lester. 👏👍👌😉

[@brianedwards2309]

brian edwards never for get lester one day at the beverly races i always wanted lesters autograph and rushed forward to get it he brushed me a sside and gave it to a colourd man it showed his class and of he went he said he thought zucchero was one of the best he had five horses come at him zetroland gold cup off key lester won half a lenth

[@philsooty61]

He was brilliant but a shame he was also bent and ruthless with a greedy streak!

[@robertdelacy3434]

Show some respect