'His cut-throat mentality was unmatched in the history of the turf'
Lester Piggott was too busy to visit the cinema in his youth. The teenager whose life was consumed by racing missed out on the golden era of Hollywood westerns, in which fabled gunslingers roamed across new frontiers.
Those 1950s productions were a metaphor of Piggott himself. He was the cold-eyed marksman who never blinked, and who took no…
