Freddy Head

Horseracing personalities infobox


name = Freddy Head
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occupation = Jockey
birthplace = Neuilly, France
birth date = June 19, 1947
death date =
career wins = Not found
race = Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
(1966, 1972, 1976, 1979)
Prix de la Forêt
(1966, 1968, 1972, 1983, 1990)
Prix d'Astarté
(1967, 1970, 1982, 1985, 1989, 1992)
Prix Jacques Le Marois
(1967, 1972, 1981, 1987, 1988, 1991)
Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp
(1967, 1978)
Prix Saint-Alary
(1967, 1971, 1976, 1978-1979, 1982, 1985-1986, 1991)
Grand Prix de Paris
(1968, 1969)
Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte
(1968, 1972, 1977, 1984)
Prix Royal-Oak
(1968, 1971, 1974, 1980, 1984,1989)
Prix du Jockey Club
(1969, 1973, 1975, 1976)
Prix de Diane
(1971, 1978, 1982, 1986)
Prix Vermeille
(1971, 1978, 1979)
Prix Morny
(1971, 1979, 1989, 1990)
Prix d'Ispahan
(1972, 1978, 1986, 1988)
Prix de la Salamandre
(1974, 1979, 1989, 1990)
Poule d'Essai des Poulains
(1975, 1976, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992)
Poule d'Essai des Pouliches
(1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1997)
Prix Lupin
(1975, 1976, 1991, 1992)
Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud
(1976, 1977, 1979)
Prix du Moulin de Longchamp
(1980, 1981, 1987)
Prix du Cadran (1981, 1983)
Grand Critérium (1982, 1990)
Grand Prix de Deauville (1983)
Prix Ganay (1986)
Prix Marcel Boussac (1986, 1994)
Prix Maurice de Gheest (1996 as a jockey)
(2006, 2007 as a trainer)

International race wins:
2,000 Guineas (1982)
1,000 Guineas (1983, 1987)
Breeders' Cup Mile (1987, 1988)
Diadem Stakes (1990)
Cheveley Park Stakes (1996)
July Cup (1996)
awards = Champion Jockey in France (6 times)
honours =
horses = Three Troikas, Riverman, Ivanjica, San San
Val de l'Orne, Lyphard, Riverqueen, Youth
Green Dancer, Ma Biche, Miesque
Blushing John, Gold River, Hector Protector
updated = March 24, 2007

Freddy Head (born June 19, 1947, in Neuilly, France) is a retired champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing and currently a horse trainer. Known also as "Freddie", his grandfather was a jockey as was his father Alec Head who also became a successful trainer and owner of Haras du Quesnay near Deauville. Alec Head's horses won the Epsom Derby and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

In the 1976 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Freddie Head rode to victory on a horse trained by his father and in 1979 took another win on a horse trained by his highly successful sister, Christiane "Criquette" Head. A six-time winner of the French jockey's championship, Freddie Head scored a number of important Group I wins in the United Kingdom and is best known to Americans for his back-to-back victories aboard U.S. Hall of Fame filly Miesque in the 1987 and 1988 Breeders' Cup Mile.

Freddie Head retired as a jockey in 1997 and began working as a trainer.

Major wins as a trainer

flagicon|France France
* Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp - (1) - "Marchand d'Or (2008)"
* Prix Jacques Le Marois - (1) - "Tamayuz (2008)"
* Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère - (1) - "Naaqoos (2008)"
* Prix Jean Prat - (1) - "Tamayuz (2008)"
* Prix Maurice de Gheest - (3) - "Marchand d'Or (2006, 2007, 2008)"
* Prix du Moulin de Longchamp - (1) - "Goldikova (2008)"
* Prix Rothschild - (1) - "Goldikova (2008)"----flagicon|UK Great Britain
* July Cup - (1) - "Marchand d'Or (2008)"

References

* [http://www.ntra.com/stats_bios.aspx?id=1781 Freddie Head at the NTRA]