Editing Lester Piggott (section)

==Early life==
Piggott was born in [[Wantage]], Berkshire, to a family that could trace its roots as jockeys and trainers back to the 18th century.<ref name="PDavid">p45, David Boyd, A Bibliographical Dictionary of Racehorse Trainers in Berkshire 1850–1939 (1998)</ref> The Piggotts were a Cheshire farming family who from the 1870s ran the [[Crown Hotel, Nantwich|Crown Inn]] in [[Nantwich]] for over 30 years. Piggott's grandfather, [[Ernest Piggott]] (1878–1967), rode three [[Grand National]] winners, in 1912, 1918 and 1919,<ref name="independent.ie-20140311O'Riordan" /> and was married to a sister of the jockeys [[Mornington Cannon]] and [[Kempton Cannon]], who both rode winners of the Derby, in 1899 and 1904, respectively. He was also three-times [[British jump racing Champion Jockey]] (in 1910, 1913 and 1915), and owned a racehorse stable at the Old Manor in [[Letcombe Regis]] (now in [[Oxfordshire]]).<ref>{{cite book | last=Carter | first=J.|title=Warriors on Horseback: The Inside Story of the Professional Jockey | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-4729-2453-7 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rNy6CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA195 |page= 132|access-date=29 May 2022}}</ref>

Lester Piggott's father, (Ernest) Keith Piggott (1904–1993), was a successful [[National Hunt]] jockey and trainer, winning the [[Champion Hurdle]] as a jockey in 1939<ref name="independent.ie-20140311O'Riordan" /> and the Grand National as a trainer in 1963 with [[Ayala (horse)|Ayala]], becoming the [[British jump racing Champion Trainer]] of the 1962–63 season.<ref name=Irish /> He owned a training stable at South Bank in [[Lambourn]], where Lester Piggott lived until 1954.<ref name="PDavid" /> Lester Piggott was a cousin, through his mother Lilian Iris Rickaby, jockeys Bill and Fred Rickaby. Fred was [[British flat racing Champion Apprentice]] in 1931 and 1932.<ref name="RacingPo">{{cite news |title=Fred Rickaby, champion apprentice and trainer, dies at 93. |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Fred+Rickaby%2c+champion+apprentice+and+trainer%2c+dies+at+93.-a0217924929 |access-date=29 May 2022 |work=[[Racing Post]] |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>