1983 Epsom Derby 1983 Epsom Derby The 1983 Epsom Derby was the 204th annual running of the Derby horse race. It took place at Epsom Downs Racecourse on 1 June 1983. The race was won by Eric Moller's Teenoso, at odds of 9/2 ridden by jockey Lester Piggott and trained at Newmarket by Geoff Wragg. Teenoso's win gave Piggott a record-breaking ninth success in the race. The winning time of 2:49.07 was the slowest of the 20th century. Further details of the winner, Teenoso: Notable runs by the future Derby participants as two-year-olds in 1982: Early-season appearances in 1983 and trial races prior
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