Two photograph albums personally compiled by the jockey Lester Piggott and chronicling the early period of his career between 1949 and his first Derby

Two photograph albums personally compiled by the jockey Lester Piggott and chronicling the early period of his career between 1949 and his first Derby win in 1954, aged 13 to 18, the first a red cloth-bound album covering the period 1949 to 1951, pasted with a good selection of b&w press photographs (approx. 79) many with hand-written annotations by the jockey 'Boy Wonder' Lester Piggott, others, with the press captions pasted in, some of the photos are from the earliest of his days as a jockey aged 12, horses featured including Little Bonnet, Secret Code, Variety Girl, Tancred, Extra Dry, Lancashire Lassie, Alizarene, Sun Flame, Light Cavalry, Highland Gig, Horatio, Colonist (Winston Churchill), Zina (including at the Cambridgeshire meeting when Piggott was suspended for the rest of the seaason), Bright Forecast, Lady Pappageno, Barnacle, Idealist, Holmbush, Breath Of Spring, Pandite (breaking his collar bone at Lincoln), Peggy Wood, Zucchero, Golden Quip, Vidi Vici, Blue Sapphire, Moulan, Wild Boy, Pyrgos and concluding with Mystery IX winning the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown; the second a blue cloth bound album, covering the period 1951 to 1954, pasted with another fine selection of b&w press photographs, also some privately taken content, (approx. 92), again with a mixture of annotations in Lester's hand and printed press captions, horses featured including Grani, Zucchero (Lester's first Derby ride, 1951), Triangle, Belvoir Street, Blazing, Chivalry, Commando, March Past, Morning Trial, a series of picture of Lester riding in Greece in 1952-53, Windsor Star, Vigorous Lady, Vital Spark, Ever Ready, Just Us, Carola Pride, Blarney Stone, Grey Magic, Globetrotter, Longstone, Cote d'Or, Lester National Hunt debut on Tangle at Kempton Park in 1953 and other jumps subjects, and Lester's famous success as an 18-year-old winning the Derby on Never Say Die in 1954