Lester Piggott
“How old is he now?” people whisper in passing. The tell-tale lines on his well-weathered face give the game away. He will be 80 this year.
“Of course you never think about going this far,” he says. “Nobody really wants to be 80, do they? I suppose it comes to us all.”
I’m face-to-face with Lester Piggott, described this week by fellow record-breaking jockey AP McCoy as the “greatest sportsman of all-time”. He is partially deaf with a speech defect that gives him a low nasal tone. We are sitting as close as chess players, writes Frank Keogh in a fascinating interview on www.bbc.com.
By Frank Keogh
