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Which Horse Did Lester Piggott Win On Carrying 14 Pounds Overweight?
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One day he told of the time when the war on weight became total. "I was down in the south of France in February," he recalled. "On the scales I was 11 stone. When I got back to England I worked and worked but was still pushing nine stone at the Lincoln meeting in March, was cheating to do 8st 8lb at the Craven in April. I thought it would never come off. But we had some winners. It was the year of Crepello, 1957 and," he added with one of the most cold blooded bits of self-denying understatement you will ever hear, "I never let it go up again." He was no longer a thin man with a fat man trying to get out.
One day he told of the time when the war on weight became total. "I was down in the south of France in February," he recalled. "On the scales I was 11 stone. When I got back to England I worked and worked but was still pushing nine stone at the Lincoln meeting in March, was cheating to do 8st 8lb at the Craven in April. I thought it would never come off. But we had some winners. It was the year of Crepello, 1957 and," he added with one of the most cold blooded bits of self-denying understatement you will ever hear, "I never let it go up again." He was no longer a thin man with a fat man trying to get out.
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