LESTER: THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY by Dick Francis

Author:Dick Francis [Francis, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The private story of the world's most famous jockey
Published: 1987-06-14T18:30:00+00:00

Sir Ivor's great career was at an end, but his marvellous power is on record for posterity. A film was made that year, at first intended merely to publicise racing, but later focussing on and following the fortunes of the winner of the Guineas and the Derby. Lovingly photographed and called simply "The Year of Sir Ivor", it was shown to public acclaim by the BBC.

The year of Sir Ivor was also, for Lester, the year of Petingo. Once his friend Marcus Lemos and his father-in-law Sam Armstrong had forgiven him for choosing to beat them in the Two Thousand Guineas, they put him back pretty rapidly on the stable's best. Ten days before Sir Ivor's Derby, Lester rode Petingo in the Prix Lupin at Longchamp, regrettably without results. Next time out, however, in the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, he led for the whole mile to win comfortably, and six weeks later produced a repeat performance in the richly-endowed Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. In his final race for the year, he finished second, hard ridden, and was retired to go to stud.

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