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Tracy piggott biography
Tracy Piggott
British-born jockey and broadcaster
Tracy Piggott (born ) is a British-born former jockey and broadcaster, best known for her work commentating on horse racing on Irish state broadcaster RTÉ.
Early life
Piggott is the daughter of Susan Armstrong and champion jockey Lester Piggott[1] and member of an English family which has been involved in horse racing since the eighteenth century.
Her great-grandfather Ernest Piggott won the Grand National as a jockey three times, in , and , while her grandfather Keith Piggott won the Grand National as a trainer in Piggott has a sister, ex-eventer Maureen, and a half-brother, Jamie.
She has one daughter, Thea, born in
Career
Piggott worked as a "galloper" (exercise rider or work rider) for horse trainers in the US. She moved to England to work with her mother, buying and selling horses.
She moved to Ireland in [2] where she worked as an assistant to horse trainer Tommy Stack for two years.[