Victor Piggott

Victor Piggott

1906-1992

Victor Thomas Cannon Piggott was born in France in on May 11, 1906 and was the younger brother of Ernest Keith Piggott, father of Lester.

He rode his first winner on the Flat on Dorado in the Apprentices’ Plate at Brighton in August 1920, beating Kaboodles by a neck despite carrying a pound overweight at 5st 7lb. 

He rode ten winners altogether on the Flat. They were, in chronological order:

1. Dorado, Brighton, August 4, 1920

2. Rest, Folkestone, August 8, 1921

3. Rest, Wolverhampton, October 11, 1921

4. Thelma, Warwick, November 21, 1921

5. Sparleton, Edinburgh, April 11, 1922

6. D’Ye Ken, Salisbury, May 19, 1922

7. D’Ye Ken, Hurst Park, June 6, 1922

8. Thelma, Folkestone, June 20, 1922

9. Thelma, Alexandra Park, July 1, 1922

10. Attaboy, Wolverhampton, October 10, 1922

In winning the July Handicap at Alexandra Park on July 1, 1922, he beat Steve Donoghue on Blarney Stone by three lengths. 

However, he did far better as a National Hunt jockey, riding over 300 winners, the first of which was on Bedelia, trained by his father, former champion jump jockey Ernie Piggott, in the Pendleton Selling Handicap at Manchester on Easter Monday, April 2, 1923. 

He retired in his early twenties after suffering a bad fall. He then joined his father-in-law’s bookmaking business in Malvern.

Victor Piggott died in Chichester, Sussex on 17 March 1992, aged 85.