Career
Piggott began his English riding career in the late 1890s but from 1905 was based for several years in Belgium and France. At the time this was the joint-record number of winners, although it was superseded the following year. His two other championships came in 1913 and 1915.
His first victory came in 1912 on 4/1 joint favourite, Jerry M, trained by Robert Gore and owned by Sir Charles Assheton-Smith.
Piggott also notably rode the 14-year-old Manifesto into third place in the 1902 National under a weight of 12 st 8 pounds This made it the oldest horse ever to have been placed in the National up to that point, and it remains the only horse ever to have been placed carrying such a weight.
He retired from the saddle in 1920 and trained for twenty years at Letcombe Regis from the following year, dying in hospital at Oxford on 13 March 1967 aged 88.
