It wouldn't be any fun otherwise, would it?". Peter O’Sullevan: Calling the Horses – A Racing Autobiography, 25 Years On (Hodder & Stoughton), Sir Peter O'Sullevan on his last day commentating for the BBC at the 1997 Hennessy Gold Cup, Italian police break up ring that was counterfeiting celebrated super Tuscan red wine, Single-use plastic bag can be better for the environment than cotton used 50 times, study finds, Government pays BA and Virgin £70m to fly PPE from China, Early humans wiped out by climate change, study finds, Second furlough risks pushing poorest into prostitution, poverty tsar warns. He's the obvious one.". When Vincent O'Brien, the great Irish trainer, talked him out of retirement he won the 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile on Royal Academy and the 2,000 Guineas with Rodrigo de Triano. My … It's impossible. It’s a fact, isn’t it?”. He is 84 years old and is a Scorpio. The week-day racing is rubbish, isn't it? It was just a blocked artery.". During those 46 years he had re-written the record books and shown himself to be the most successful, most talented, most charistmatic, most ruthless, most disciplined, most astute, most respected, most fearless, most feared, most popular, most feted, most taciturn, most inscrutable, most mythologised, most professional and greatest jockey of his era. “That helped to make him fairly dismissive of light conversation. O’Sullevan is chortling by now. Working as an ambassador for the Qipco British Champions Series, Piggott granted the Observer a rare interview, and talked with the soft wit his closest friends and admirers always said was there. You can’t say your horse put a foot in a hole. Henry's got some other good ones. He left it a bit late, but it was his idea.". Training was the obvious next step, and he duly sent out Cutting Blade to win the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot the following June. Speaking from his bed – he felt a touch too “breathless” that morning to rise – arguably the greatest of all sports commentators chuckles his way through a bevy of anecdotes, the best of which, almost inevitably, involves his good friend Lester Piggott and the Queen. It's a funny thing. Less robust these days – he needs regular blood transfusion “top-ups” - he is nevertheless the proud owner of an almost perfect memory, which he employs to entertain himself now that he can no longer go racing. Piggott repeated the success on The Minstrel the following year, 1983 Teenoso The last of Piggott's wins, gained in the most testing conditions many could ever remember at the track. They're just half-and-half. I’ve only bet odds-on two or three times in my life. Red Bank, NJ 07701, p: (732) 747-8060 There's too much racing and too much mediocrity. Piggott told Donald McRae of The Guardian: “A lot of people know I’m going to turn 80 – but I wish they didn’t. The first deviation from the script came when the Inland Revenue launched an investigation into possible tax evasion. I’ve rarely understood a full sentence uttered by the mumbling Piggott. The man himself wants his birthday to be a low key affair. But I’d rung Tom Dreaper [Arkle’s trainer] and got Paddy Woods, his assistant. Today they're nothing like that. It is perhaps a sign of how racing has become a more marginalised sport that, while Piggott was a sporting face recognised by the majority of housewives in the 1960’s and 1970’s, only those who regularly attended meetings in the last few seasons would have been able to identify Richard Hughes or Ryan Moore. As the eye picks out Lester Piggott approaching, the mind relocates to Tattenham Corner, where the sharp angles of his frame would coast down the hill at the back of the Derby field, waiting to swoop, ready to assert his ownership of the world's most illustrious Flat race. My late father used to make me watch Piggott in action. Your TDN download has begun. There is a placidity about him that speaks of an inner calm. And make a profit…, Watch St Mark’s Basilica win the Dewhurst Stakes, Winning football bets delight VG Tips members.

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