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JOCKEY PIGGOTT REPORTED DEAD Tho news comes from St Petersburg that jockey Piggott recently committed suicide there About ten years ago he left America for Russia to rido for the Lazareir stables Shortly after he began to revolutionize riding methods on ho Russian turf as Tod Sloan did in England but in a few wars lie was supplanted by other American riders lie then went speedily down bill Last season Piggott tried to recoup with the trotters but without wiew and ho lias now taken his life by poison according to reports
