Teenoso third favourite for the Lingfield Derby Trial in May. He took the lead five furlongs from the finish and stayed on well to win by three lengths from Shearwalk. When Lester Piggott, who had won the race eight times previously, elected to ride Teenoso in the Derby, the colt was strongly supported in the betting and started 9/2 favourite in a field of twenty-one runners. Racing on the heaviest ground seen at Epsom for many years, Teenoso was among the leaders from the start. Piggott sent the colt into the lead early in the straight and he was never in
Lester Piggott Gordon Richards. Great Britain Canada France Germany Ireland Italy Singapore Slovakia The British music band James recorded a song named "Sometimes (Lester Piggott)" on their album "Laid". The outro on the original 12" of "Sit Down" also featured a falsetto voice singing the jockey's name. The Van Morrison song "In the Days Before Rock 'n Roll" also mentions Piggott by name: "When we let, then we bet / On Lester Piggott when we met [ten to one] / And we let the goldfish go" Piggott was frequently caricatured on "Spitting Image", in which he was portrayed as having mumbling diction