Success and longevity are two routes to greatness in sport, but few in any line of it have ever married the pair quite like Lester Piggott.
The 11-time champion jockey, who passed away at the age of 86 this weekend, rode the first of almost 4,500 British winners in 1948, before he had even entered his teens, and the last in 1994, a year shy of his sixties, at the end of a career that began in the black and white aftermath of the Second World War and outlasted the division of Europe.
