SEA Silk Road evidently read the script when winning the first running of the Group 3 Lester Piggott Stakes, the race formerly known as the Pinnacle Stakes, at Haydock Park on Saturday.

Named after the legendary 11 times champion jockey, who rode his first and last winners at the Merseyside track in a career which spanned 46 years, it was fitting that it was won by the William Haggas-trained winner with Lester’s daughter Maureen on hand, along with her siblings Tracy and Jamie Piggott.