#Petite Etoile

Jimmy Lindley, jockey who had hundreds of wins before becoming a fixture of the BBC’s racing coverage for 30 years

Jimmy Lindley, jockey who had hundreds of wins before becoming a fixture of the BBC’s racing coverage for 30 years

Jimmy Lindley, who has died aged 86, was a jockey who overcame chronic weight problems to win a succession of big races in the 1960s and early 1970s before spending three decades as a highly regarded BBC pundit; his shrewd assessments of horses as they paraded in the paddock before races proved a boon to millions of armchair punters over the…
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King George: trainer insight as Westover and Emily Upjohn face top-class rivals

King George: trainer insight as Westover and Emily Upjohn face top-class rivals

History tells you it takes a three-year-old of rare constitution and quality to run in the Derby and Irish Derby before tackling the older generation in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes. Only truly exceptional talents - Troy and Shergar in 1979 and 1981, followed by Generous a decade later and Galileo in 2001 - have been able to…
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'His cut-throat mentality was unmatched in the history of the turf'

'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…
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