Horse racing legend Lester Piggott is ill in hospital in Switzerland, his family revealed yesterday.
Son-in-law William Haggas said of the 86-year-old: “He’s battling a bit, but he’s a tough man.
Hopefully he’ll pull through and get home as soon as possible.”
Mr Haggas said Lester’s son Jamie was at his bedside. He also said his wife Maureen, Piggott’s daughter, planned to visit today.
The former jockey moved to Rolle, overlooking Lake Geneva, in 2012 after he separated from his wife.
He was inducted into the British Champions Series Hall of Fame last year.
He was hospitalised in 2007 when a heart problem recurred but made a swift recovery.
Mr Haggas did not reveal the nature of his current illness.
Lester won almost 5,000 races in a 48-year career. He served a year of a three-year sentence for tax fraud in the 1980s.
