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SKIPP, After Raymond L.
Portrait of Lester Piggott
London: Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd, 1983. Coloured print by Royle Print Ltd. after Raymond L.Skipp. Image size (including text): 26 1/4 x 18 3/8 inches. Sheet size: 32 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches.
A very fine limited edition print, one of 850 copies signed in pencil beneath the image by Piggott and Skipp.
An excellent large-scale full-length portrait of the greatest 20th-century English jockey: Lester Piggott. His achievements include winning just over 5,300 races in the United Kingdom and overseas. These wins included nine Epsom Derbys, three Prix de l'Arc de Triomphes and a total of over 30 wins in English Classic races, as well as being champion jockey eleven times in 1960, 1964-71, 1981 & 1982. Outside the United Kingdom he rode and won in 27 different countries between 1955 and 1984.
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#5588 $350.00 
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© 2002-2005 Donald A. Heald
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