65-612: The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given to the coach who was considered to have made the most substantive contribution to British sport in that year. The award is decided by a panel of over 30 sporting journalists. Each panellist votes for their top two choices; their first preference
130-597: A Special Gold Award in 2005 for his work in helping Britain obtain the right to host the 2012 Olympics . Five awards have been presented once: Manager of the Year in 1969, a Special Team Award in 1986, Good Sport Awards in 1990, an International Team Award in 1983, and the Sports Personality of the Century Award in 1999. In 2003, to celebrate fifty years of Sports Personality of the Year, two special anniversary awards were created to recognise
195-565: A BBC service had been sponsored." They decided that the 2008 awards should not be broadcast as a sponsored event, and no new sponsorship deal was negotiated after the Britvic deal expired. In February 2008 , the BBC announced that the 2008 Sports Personality of the Year event would be held at the Echo Arena , Liverpool . One reason for the move to Liverpool was to allow greater numbers to view
260-406: A Special Award for raising awareness of and fundraising for motor neurone disease . As part of the 50th Anniversary of BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2003, two additional awards were presented. In the lead up to the anniversary show on 14 December 2003, a series of five half-hour special programmes, entitled Simply The Best – Sports Personality , were broadcast. Hosted by Gary Lineker ,
325-512: A commonly held belief that he was prosecuted after using an undeclared bank account, to make a final settlement of his tax liabilities, is a myth. Piggott resumed his career as a jockey in 1990, at the age of 55, and won the Breeders' Cup Mile on Royal Academy within ten days of his return. He rode another Classic winner, Rodrigo de Triano, in the 1992 2000 Guineas . His last win in Britain
390-502: A football manager on ten occasions. It has been awarded to nine Britons, and eleven of the other fourteen winners were European. Daniel Anderson , the only winner from the Southern Hemisphere , was in his native Australia at the time of the awards, so the then St. Helens captain, Paul Sculthorpe , collected it on his behalf. In 2007, Enzo Calzaghe was the first recipient of the award who had coached an individual and not
455-504: A further three regular awards: Coach of the Year , Newcomer of the Year , and a Helen Rollason Award for "outstanding courage and achievement in the face of adversity". In a one-off award, boxer Muhammad Ali was voted as the Sports Personality of the Century . On 1 November 2003, BBC Books published "BBC Sports Personality of the Year 50th Anniversary" ( ISBN 0-563-48747-X ), written by Steve Rider and Martyn Smith, to mark
520-469: A glittering career of unparalleled success. Known as the "housewives' favourite", Piggott had legions of followers and did much to expand the popularity of horse racing beyond its narrow, class-based origins. Famously tall for a flat jockey (5 ft 7 in/1.70 m), hence his nickname of "The Long Fellow", Piggott struggled to keep his weight down and for most of his career rode at 8 stone 5 pounds (53 kg; 117 lb). He pioneered
585-828: A host venue during the Commonwealth Games earlier in the year. In 2015 , the ceremony was held in Northern Ireland for the first time, at the SSE Arena in Belfast, on 20 December. The event returned to Birmingham and Liverpool in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The 2018 ceremony took place in Birmingham, marking the city's fifth time hosting the event (3rd time at the same venue). In 2018 the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of
650-442: A new Manager of the Year award was given to Don Revie for his achievements with Leeds United , the only occasion it was presented. In the following year boxer Henry Cooper became the first person to win the main award twice, having already won in 1967. During the 1970s Bough and Coleman presided over the ceremony alongside Jimmy Hill , Cliff Morgan , Kenneth Wolstenholme , and Harry Carpenter , who also went on to present
715-561: A new style of race-riding that was subsequently widely adopted by colleagues at home and abroad and enabled him to become Champion Jockey eleven times. He also rode over hurdles early in his career. In 1980, his relationship with the Sangster –O'Brien combination came to an end and he was appointed stable jockey to Noel Murless's son-in-law Henry Cecil , the British flat racing Champion Trainer , at Murless's old stables, Warren Place. He
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#1732802172243780-419: A particular mistake. By his teens a sensation in the racing world, he rode his first winner of The Derby on Never Say Die in 1954, aged eighteen, and went on to win eight more, on Crepello (1957), St. Paddy (1960), Sir Ivor (1968), Nijinsky (1970), Roberto (1972), Empery (1976), The Minstrel (1977) and Teenoso (1983). He was stable jockey to Noel Murless and later to Vincent O'Brien and had
845-623: A practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix —the injuries he received ended his Formula One career; Aitken-Walker and co-driver Thörner crashed off a cliff into a lake in Portugal when competing in the women's World Rally Championship, which they went on to win that year. In 1999, a one-off award voted for by the British public selected a Sports Personality of the Century. Muhammad Ali accumulated more votes from BBC viewers than
910-440: A record nine Epsom Derby victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest flat racing jockeys of all time and the originator of a much-imitated style. Popularly called "The Long Fellow", he was known for his competitive personality, restricting his weight and, on occasion, not sparing the whip, such as in the 1972 Derby . Piggott was convicted of tax fraud in 1987 and sentenced to three years in prison, but served just over
975-425: A relationship with Anna Ludlow. Piggott was partially deaf and had a minor speech impediment. He was also known for his dry wit, despite a reputation for being taciturn. For example, when asked by a reporter, after Karabas had won the 1969 Washington International , when he thought he would win, Piggott replied "about two weeks ago". Allegedly when asked by a stable employee for a £1 gratuity, Piggott motioned to
1040-531: A song named "Sometimes (Lester Piggott)" on their 1993 album Laid . The outro on the original 12" of Sit Down (1989) also featured a falsetto voice singing the jockey's name. The 1990 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 ITV's Spitting Image , in which he
1105-544: A special gala edition of Sportsview held at the Savoy Hotel on 30 December 1954. The show lasted 45 minutes and was presented by Peter Dimmock . The ceremony was combined with two other awards, the sportsman and sportswoman of the year, which were determined by votes through the Sporting Record newspaper. The newspaper had presented their sportsman of the year award since 1946, to which they later added
1170-610: A sportswoman of the year award. The award for the 1953 Sporting Record winners had been broadcast on BBC radio in April 1954. Voting for the BBC award was by postcard, and rules presented in a Radio Times article stipulated that nominations were restricted to athletes who had featured on the Sportsview programme since April. For the inaugural BBC Sportsperson of the Year award, 14,517 votes were cast and Christopher Chataway beat fellow athlete Roger Bannister . The following year
1235-491: A team. The most recent award was presented in 2023 to Manchester City's manager Pep Guardiola. This table lists the total number of awards won by coaches of each nationality based on the principle of jus soli . This table lists the total number of awards won by coaches' sporting profession. General Specific BBC Sports Personality of the Year The BBC Sports Personality of
1300-569: A year. Piggott was born in Wantage , Berkshire, to a family that could trace its roots as jockeys and trainers back to the 18th century. The Piggotts were a Cheshire farming family who from the 1870s ran the Crown Inn in Nantwich for over 30 years. Piggott's grandfather, Ernest Piggott (1878–1967), rode three Grand National winners, in 1912, 1918 and 1919, and was married to a sister of
1365-404: Is awarded two points, and their second preference is awarded one point. The winning coach is the one with the largest points total. In the case of a points tie, the person chosen as first preference by the most panellists is the winner. If this is also a tie the award is shared. The first recipient of the award was Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in 1999. The award has been presented to
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#17328021722431430-791: The Racing Post ranked Piggott as second in their list of the Top 50 jockeys of the 20th century, behind Gordon Richards . In 2021, Piggott was, along with Frankel , one of the first two entries in the British Champions Series Hall of Fame. Below is a list of major victories by Piggott, as determined by the RacingBase website, categorised by the country of the race. Canada France Germany Ireland Italy Singapore Slovakia United Kingdom United States The British music band James recorded
1495-635: The 1983 America's Cup . The American defender Liberty had taken a 3–1 lead in races , but Australia II came back to win 4–3 and take the America's Cup, ending a 132-year winning streak by the New York Yacht Club . It was the first time the competition had gone to a seventh and final race. In 1986, a Special Team Award was presented to the British 4 × 400m squad of Derek Redmond , Kriss Akabusi , Brian Whittle , Roger Black , Todd Bennett , and Phil Brown , who won gold at
1560-582: The Champion Hurdle as a jockey in 1939 and the Grand National as a trainer in 1963 with Ayala , becoming the British jump racing Champion Trainer of the 1962–63 season. He owned a training stable at South Bank in Lambourn , where Lester Piggott lived until 1954. Lester Piggott was a cousin, through his mother Lilian Iris Rickaby, of two other jockeys, Bill and Fred Rickaby. Fred Rickaby
1625-608: The Epsom Derby in June 2008 where he tipped the winner, New Approach, during a BBC television interview. He was also present for the 2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup where he presented a trophy to jockey Tony McCoy . In 2014 the Eve Lodge Stables training yard and complex, which included four semi-detached, two-bedroom bungalows and which could house up to 100 horses, was put on the market for £1.25 million. Piggott
1690-581: The European Championships . Akabusi, Black, Bennett and Brown also won gold for England in the 4 x 400 m at the Commonwealth Games that year. In 1990, Good Sport Awards were presented for courage and good sportsmanship to Derek Warwick , Martin Donnelly , Louise Aitken-Walker and Tina Thörner , who were all involved in motor racing accidents that year. Warwick survived a high speed crash at Monza ; Donnelly crashed during
1755-640: The Football League First Division that season , having lost only two games and scored a record number of points. In 1981, to recognise the year of the disabled , Dennis Moore received a Special Achievement Award for completing the inaugural London Marathon despite being blind since birth. Lester Piggott won an award in 1984 for his achievements, including winning the St. Leger Stakes on Commanche Run that year, Piggott's record-breaking 28th British classic win. In 1994, Piggott won
1820-708: The Prix de Diane for André Fabre aboard Lypharita, the 2000 Guineas Stakes for Michael Stoute on Shadeed and the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup and Irish Champion Stakes for Luca Cumani on Commanche Run . With 4,493 career wins on the Flat in Britain and approximately 5,300 worldwide, including a record nine Epsom Derby victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest flat racing jockeys of all time. Piggott's 30 Classic wins in Britain came from 25 individual horses. Of his great winners, Piggott regarded Sir Ivor as
1885-470: The dock10 studios in Salford. Despite the national COVID-19 restrictions, the event was broadcast live on BBC One and hosted by Lineker, Balding, Gabby Logan and for the first time, Alex Scott . Boxer Tyson Fury created controversy ahead of the awards by rejecting his nomination and instructing his legal team to force the BBC to exclude him from the shortlist. Despite his protestations, Fury remained on
1950-406: The 50th Anniversary , and for the Sports Personality of the Century award, similar miniature trophies were presented but they were gold in colour. The three BBC national regions of BBC Cymru Wales , BBC Scotland and BBC Northern Ireland each hold individual sports personality awards. Respectively, they are BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year , BBC Scotland Sports Personality of
2015-508: The 55-year-old wife of Lord John FitzGerald , though legally he was still married to his wife Susan. In 2004, he published the book Lester's Derbys . On 15 May 2007, Piggott was admitted to intensive care in a hospital in Geneva , following a recurrence of a previous heart problem. His wife stated that this illness was not life-threatening and that he was recovering in intensive care as a precaution. He attended Royal Ascot in June 2007 and
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2080-462: The Best – Sports Personality . It was presented by Gary Lineker and formed part of a public vote to determine a special Golden Sports Personality of the Year . That year Steve Rider and Martyn Smith wrote a book reflecting on the 50-year history of the award and the programme. The event was held outside London for the first time in 2006, when tickets were made available to the public. The trophy for
2145-598: The Year award was renamed World Sport Star of the Year. Along with the change of name, votes could be cast from outside of the UK for the first time. In addition a new award was announced: Greatest Sporting Moment of the Year. For the main award, the nominees would not be announced until the show itself. The 2019 ceremony took place in The Event Complex in Aberdeen . The 2020 ceremony took place on 20 December at
2210-515: The Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted of just a singular award of the same name . Several new awards have been introduced, and currently eight awards are presented. The first awards to be added were the Team of the Year and Overseas Personality awards, which were introduced in 1960. A Lifetime Achievement Award
2275-534: The Year , and BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year . The 12 local BBC English Regions also have their own award ceremonies, which are held locally prior to the national ceremony. Also, fifteen regional winners comprise the nominees for the BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award . In 1969, Don Revie was presented with a Manager of the Year award for his achievements while in charge of Leeds United A.F.C. Leeds became champions of
2340-542: The award again for his "services to racing". Comedian David Walliams received the award in 2006 "for his outstanding achievement of swimming the English Channel for charity", which raised over £1 million for Sport Relief . Fellow comedian Eddie Izzard was presented with the award in 2009 after running 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief . In 1983, the team of Australia II received an International Team Award in recognition of their victory in
2405-408: The award while playing cricket there—which he did. The original trophy is still used for the ceremony, and is engraved after the show before being given to the winner, who keeps it for eight or nine months. The trophies for second and third place, and for the other awards , are smaller imitations of the main trophy, but have in the past been silver salvers . For the two special awards celebrating
2470-474: The award; however, the actual shortlist contained two winners from the most recent decade—rower Steve Redgrave , who won the award, and footballer David Beckham . The other members of the shortlist were footballer Bobby Moore , cricketer Ian Botham and ice skating duo Torvill and Dean . Alf Ramsey 's squad won a poll to select a Team of the Decade for the 50th anniversary show. Representatives from each of
2535-492: The best team and Sports Personality from the previous fifty years. Rower Steve Redgrave was voted BBC Golden Sports Personality of the Year and England's 1966 World Cup -winning football team was chosen as Team of the Decades . The BBC 's Sports Personality of the Year was created by Paul Fox , who came up with the idea while he was editor of the magazine show Sportsview . The first award ceremony took place as part of
2600-561: The capacity of the NEC was increased from 5,000 to 8,000. The event sold out, but the sponsorship deal was shortened to one year after complaints by ITV and RadioCentre caused the BBC Trust to rule in June 2008 that "Editorial Guidelines were breached and the editorial integrity of the BBC compromised by giving the impression to licence fee payers via Sports Personality of the Year that part of
2665-591: The combined total of the five other contenders: Pelé , George Best , Donald Bradman , Jack Nicklaus , and Jesse Owens . In 2005, Sebastian Coe received a Special Gold Award for chairing London 's winning bid for the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic games. In 2020, Marcus Rashford received an Expert Panel Special Award for his campaign for free school meals during the COVID-19 pandemic and against child food poverty. In 2022, Kevin Sinfield received
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2730-429: The decade covered; the five winners then went onto a shortlist for one of two special 50th Anniversary awards . From this shortlist, rower Steve Redgrave was voted Golden Sports Personality of the Year by the public. The England World Cup-winning team of 1966 won a Team of the Decades award, voted for by representatives from all previous Teams of the Year . In 2006, for the first time in its 53-year history,
2795-702: The easiest to ride. Piggott retired as a jockey at the end of the 1985 flat season and became a trainer. His Eve Lodge stables in Newmarket in Suffolk , housed 97 horses and sent out 34 winners. His burgeoning new career as a trainer was ended when he was convicted of tax fraud and jailed. He was stripped of his appointment as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), which had been awarded in 1975. He served 366 days in prison. According to Piggott,
2860-502: The employee to speak into his "good ear", at which point the employee increased the request to £2. Piggott responded with "try the other ear again". On being asked by a young girl serving him with ice cream if he was soul singer Wilson Pickett , he said "yes". Piggott died in hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, on 29 May 2022, at the age of 86. The annual jockey awards The Lesters , inaugurated in 1990, are named in his honour. In 1999,
2925-416: The episodes were shown on BBC One for five consecutive nights from 8 to 12 December 2003 and each covered one decade of Sports Personality. To celebrate the golden anniversary of the show, a special award was voted for by the public to recognise an all-time Golden Sports Personality from the previous winners of the last 49 years. A shortlist of five was planned to contain one winner from each decade of
2990-472: The event was held outside London, in Birmingham 's National Exhibition Centre (NEC). For the first time, tickets for the event were made available to the public, and 3,000 were sold in the first hour. That year, Adrian Chiles joined the show and co-presented alongside Barker and Lineker for two years. The 2007 ceremony was the first of a two-year sponsorship deal with Britvic 's brand Robinsons , and
3055-470: The golden anniversary of the show. Leading up to the anniversary show on 14 December 2003, a series of five half-hour special programmes, entitled Simply The Best – Sports Personality , were broadcast. Hosted by Gary Lineker, the episodes were shown on BBC One for five consecutive nights from 8–12 December 2003; each covered one decade of Sports Personality history. At the end of each programme, viewers voted for their favourite Sports Personality winner from
3120-655: The jockeys Mornington Cannon and Kempton Cannon , who both rode winners of the Derby, in 1899 and 1904 respectively. He was also three-times British jump racing Champion Jockey (in 1910, 1913 and 1915), and owned a racehorse stable at the Old Manor in Letcombe Regis (now in Oxfordshire ). Lester Piggott's father, (Ernest) Keith Piggott (1904–1993), was a successful National Hunt jockey and trainer, winning
3185-686: The main award is a silver-plated four-turret lens camera, and for the other awards smaller imitations of the main trophy are used. All of the BBC local regions hold their own independent award ceremonies, which take place before the main ceremony and are used to compile a shortlist for the BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award . Other awards have been presented in the past. Special Achievement Awards have been presented on five occasions: to jockey Lester Piggott in 1984 and 1994, disabled marathon runner Dennis Moore in 1981, comedian David Walliams in 2006, and comedian Eddie Izzard in 2009. Sebastian Coe picked up
3250-425: The past winners of the Team of the Year award voted for their outstanding team of the last 50 years. Bobby Robson presented the award to Bobby Charlton , who collected the award on behalf of the late Bobby Moore 's team. Lester Piggott Lester Keith Piggott (5 November 1935 – 29 May 2022) was an English professional jockey and trainer . With 4,493 career flat racing wins in Britain, including
3315-483: The shortlist for the trophy which was won for the second time by Lewis Hamilton . Also awarded that year was the Expert Panel Special Award, awarded to footballer Marcus Rashford for his campaign against child food poverty. In May 2024, it was announced that under the BBC's "competitive tender" policy, Whisper North had won the tender to produce the ceremony. The trophy for the main award
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#17328021722433380-613: The show for the first time in 1994, at which racing driver Damon Hill won the first of his two awards, the second coming two years later. Boxer Frank Bruno was the inaugural winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, and as of 2014 there have been 15 recipients of the award. In 1999 the show was renamed Sports Personality of the Year , and Gary Lineker joined the show as a co-presenter alongside Rider and Barker. They were supported that year by John Inverdale and Clare Balding . The ceremony introduced
3445-558: The show live, as the 10,600-seater venue in Liverpool had a bigger capacity than the NEC. That year Jake Humphrey replaced Chiles as co-presenter. The 2009 show was rumoured to be held in either Cardiff or Glasgow. However, it was announced on 30 April 2009 that the show would be staged at the Sheffield Arena . The 2010 ceremony was held in Birmingham's LG Arena with approximately 12,000 guests. The ceremony in 2011
3510-415: The show until 1985. Des Lynam took over as main host from Bough in 1983, and presided over figure skating duo Torvill and Dean 's win the following year, when they became the first non-individual winners of the main award. Steve Rider replaced Carpenter as co-host in 1986, at which a Special Team Award was presented to Great Britain men's 4 x 400 m relay team. In the 1980s, Steve Davis finished in
3575-472: The show was renamed Sports Review of the Year and given a longer duration of 75 minutes. The award continued to be held together with the sportsman and sportswoman of the year awards until 1958, by which time the latter awards were being organised by the Daily Express . From 1959 the BBC award ceremony was separated from the sportsman and sportswoman of the year awards. In 1960 Dimmock presented
3640-650: The show, and introduced two new awards: the Team of the Year award and the Overseas Personality award, won by the Cooper Car Company and athlete Herb Elliott respectively. David Coleman joined the show the following year and remained a co-presenter until 1983. Swimmer Anita Lonsbrough became the first female recipient of the main award in 1962; females won it in the following two years as well. Frank Bough took over as presenter in 1964 and presented Sports Review for 18 years. In 1969,
3705-519: The top three on five occasions, including one win in 1988. In 1991, angler Bob Nudd received the most votes following a campaign in the Angling Times . However, the BBC deemed this to be against the rules and refused to acknowledge his votes, allowing athlete Liz McColgan to win the award. The following year racing driver Nigel Mansell became the second person to win the main award twice, having won his first in 1986. Sue Barker presented
3770-402: Was British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1931 and 1932. Piggott began racing horses from his father's stable when he was ten years old and won his first race in 1948, aged twelve, on a horse called The Chase, at Haydock Park . Piggott was known for his quiet demeanour. He described his mother as wisely playing down his success, while his father rarely gave advice unless there had been
3835-499: Was again champion jockey in 1981 and 1982. In late 1983, a dispute arose as to whether Piggott had reneged on an agreement to ride Daniel Wildenstein 's All Along in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe for Patrick Louis Biancone when Piggott stated he had agreed to ride the previous year's Arc third Awaasif and could only ride All Along if that horse did not run. All Along was ridden instead by Walter Swinburn , with Wildenstein refusing to allow Piggott to ride any more of his horses. It
3900-461: Was costly for Piggott, as All Along won the Arc and a string of other international races in an autumn campaign that ended with her being named U.S. Horse of the Year . As Wildenstein was one of Cecil's principal owners, this placed a strain on the relationship and, in 1984, Cecil and Piggott split, with Steve Cauthen taking over at Warren Place. In 1985, Piggott rode freelance, with big wins including
3965-458: Was created in the 1950s and cost about £1,000. It was first presented to the inaugural winner, Christopher Chataway , in 1954. It is a silver-plated four-turret lens camera , with the name of each winner engraved on individual shields attached to a plinth underneath the camera. The trophy originally had one plinth, but two more were added to create room for more shields. A replica trophy was made in 1981 and sent to India in case Ian Botham won
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#17328021722434030-701: Was first given in 1995 and again in 1996, and has been presented annually since 2001. In 1999, three more awards were introduced: the Helen Rollason Award , the Coach Award , and the Newcomer Award , which was renamed to Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2001. The newest is the Unsung Hero Award , first presented in 2003. In 2003, the 50th anniversary of the show was marked by a five-part series on BBC One called Simply
4095-762: Was held at Salford's dock10 Studios within MediaCityUK . The 2012 ceremony took place at ExCeL London , which had been one of the major venues for both the Olympics and Paralympics earlier that year. The 60th ceremony in 2013 was held at the First Direct Arena in Leeds. In 2014 , the ceremony was held in Scotland for the first time in its history, at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, which had served as
4160-774: Was in October 1994 and he officially retired in 1995; his last British ride was in the November Handicap on 5 November 1994, but he rode abroad through the winter of 1994–95, winning the Black Opal Stakes on Zadok in Canberra on 5 March 1995 before deciding not to return for the 1995 British Flat turf season. Piggott lived near Newmarket for the entire duration of his career. He later emigrated to Bursinel , Switzerland, where he continued to reside with his partner and family friend Lady Barbara FitzGerald, then
4225-413: Was married to Susan Armstrong. They married at St. Mark's church, North Audley Street, London, in 1960. Her father, Sam Armstrong, and her brother, Robert Armstrong , were both racehorse trainers. They had two daughters, Maureen, an ex- eventer (married to Derby-winning trainer William Haggas ) and Tracy (a sports presenter on Irish television station RTÉ ). He also had a son, Jamie, also a jockey, from
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