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
Max Piggott on 7 July 2010, when the car he was driving was struck by a truck, north of Albany. He had been traveling to cover a field day for the "Farm Weekly". Max Piggott Maxwell Ian "Max" Piggott (20 June 1920 – 7 July 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Piggott, the son of a policeman, grew up in the South Melbourne area and started his working life at the age of 14, for a soap manufacturer. He played his early football for Queenscliff and also made some appearances for