Lester Piggott Royal Academy Breeders' Cup Mile 1990

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Lester Piggott Royal Academy Breeders' Cup Mile 1990

The triumphant return of the 54-year-old Lester Piggott, just 12 days out of retirement. Even for an 11-time champion jockey and nine-time Derby winner, it does not get much better than this. Years on, Piggott held firm to the assertion that Royal Academy's victory in the Mile for his old friend Vincent O'Brien was a "dream come true". Piggott rarely used such language.

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  • Agreed; Lester winning anything was never an upset. And RIP Royal Academy - thanks for the memory. The last survivor of VO'B's great horses?

  • Rip Royal Academy.

  • Rest in peace, Royal Academy.

  • RIP Royal Academy

  • it was no upset, he was the greatest and there will never be another like him, the greatest, forever!

  • @JUVEXX11 agreed. That Lester is the GOAT is not an opinion. It is a simple fact. When I was growing up the question before a big race was always the same...."what's Lester on?". Watch him win the Derby on Roberto and The Minstrel....following Peter O'Sullivan I always refer to piggott as the Incomparable maestro.

  • lester,the goat.

  • Brough Scott said after the race 'Its his simple genius'

    When they came off the final turn & went to the outside you just KNEW he was gonna get up!!

  • @malcs0 I couldn't agree more. It's one of the great moments of sport. Sometimes we only know how great someone is when they're on the way down, or on their way back. He paid for his daft mistakes - a higher price than quite a few others, may I say - and did it with resigned dignity, which is why he was welcomed back so warmly. I think I'm right in saying he also did good work for prisoners' charities, so if Her Maj wants to do something really deserved, he should get that knighthood back.

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