Lester Piggot RIP

[Matesrates]

Died aged 86, legend

 

[archie]

Absolute legend. Although I must admit, I thought he had died years ago.

 

[Tangerinetiltingatwindmil]

The long fellow.
The best jockey I have ever seen.
A great Wit and raconteur.
He was once asked by a girl selling him an ice cream are you Wilson Pickett?
To which he replied Yes.
RIP

 

[Lala]

RIP

 

[Trammo]

Great jockey. I wonder if he was a fan of Ken Dodd ? RIP Lester.

 

[Matesrates]

Absolute legend. Although I must admit, I thought he had died years ago.

Well he looked 86 years old 30 years ago

 

[20togo]

Absolute legend. Although I must admit, I thought he had died years ago.

yeh, thought that too and I'd have thought he was a lot older than 86.

RIP.

 

[Jaffa_The_Hut]

yeh, thought that too and I'd have thought he was a lot older than 86.

RIP.

I think that spell inside HMP aged him 30 years.

 

[AndrewDuncanSmith]

Didn t he get imprisoned for defrauding the inland revenue.

 

[Wizzerboy]

Magnificent jockey, as others have said thought he was a lot older and that he'd gone to that paddock in the sky a long time ago.
RIP Lester

 

[Davepick]

R.i.P. Lester.
From one born in 1935 to another.
He is a real legend. And I don't follow the horses.

 

[Mikeyboy]

A fabulous sportsman - kept himself fit for such a lot of years.

 

[Mexboroseasider]

He was a crook. Fiddled the taxpayer (that’ll be you and me) for c£1.7m in tax. And that was in the late 1980s.

 

[Goldfinger]

He was a crook. Fiddled the taxpayer (that’ll be you and me) for c£1.7m in tax. And that was in the late 1980s.

The authorities used him as an example and he got 3 years.
Stripped of his OBE and lost any chance of a Knighthood.
THAT was criminal.

 

[Mexboroseasider]

The authorities used him as an example and he got 3 years.
Stripped of his OBE and lost any chance of a Knighthood.
THAT was criminal.

If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime.

 

[Tangerinetiltingatwindmil]

Great jockey. I wonder if he was a fan of Ken Dodd ? RIP Lester.

That’s taken me all day to get the joke.
Just like old Mr Banks

 

[Goldfinger]

If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime.

Plenty of Thatchers cronies got away with it.......

 

[Archibald Knox]

It’s said that the HMRC investigation into LP’s affairs had just about completed with them issuing a demand for unpaid taxes which would settle it. So LP sent them a cheque. When HMRC received it, they looked at the bank sort code and account number on the cheque and said to themselves... “Gosh, we didn’t know about that account !” The rest is history.

 

[EagleDay]

One of my sporting heroes growing up, R.I.P.

 

[Wizzerboy]

 

[Shootz]

Is it too soon for the classic joke from the time he was incarcerated?

 

[Matesrates]

He was a crook. Fiddled the taxpayer (that’ll be you and me) for c£1.7m in tax. And that was in the late 1980s.

He got caught, probably thousands didn’t and still don’t.

 

[Goldfinger]

Is it too soon for the classic joke from the time he was incarcerated?

Who's 18 stone and rode a derby winner?
That one?