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NZPA-AAP London Australian turf king Robert Sangster is not about to banish disgraced Lester Piggott from his racing empire. Sangster, aged 52, says if Piggott resumes his training career after a stint in prison, he will be sending horses to him to work.
Piggott was jailed for three years in October last year on tax fraud charges. He also was stripped of his 0.8. E. last month.
Throughout Piggott’s trial, Sangster made sure the distinctive RES (Robert Edmund Sangster) saddlecloths were seen on his horses trotting in and out of the Piggott stable. “Susan Piggott is still training horses for me and now through her, I get news of Lester,” Sangster told the “Today” newspaper. “Yes, certainly I’ll be sending more horses to him if he resumes his career as a trainer.” At one time Sangster
(owner), Piggott (jockey), and trainer Vincent O’Brien formed a racing trinity which swept up Europe’s great races. It peaked in 1977 when Piggott rode The Minstrel for wins in the English and Irish Derbys and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes.
He also brought home Sangster and O’Brien’s Alleged in the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe. Piggott rode his 3000th winner in the United Kingdom in July 1974.
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