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This section gives you an archive of the stories which made it into the national press during 1948.
Lester Piggot becomes Britain's youngest race winner when, aged 12, he rode 'The Chase' in a selling handicap race at Haydock Park. His mother worried about the effect the publicity could have on him and told reporters, "Don't spoil him. I don't know what all the fuss is about really - it was only a selling race...Of course we think he's a wonderful fellow, but he's our only child so that's natural".
