Freddy Head
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Freddy Head (born June 19, 1947, in Neuilly, France) is a retired 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 Group I victories:
- Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1966, 1972, 1976, 1979)
- Poule d'Essai des Poulains (1975, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992)
- Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1997)
- Prix Marcel Boussac (1986, 1994)
- 1,000 Guineas (1983, 1987)
- 2,000 Guineas (1982)
- Breeders' Cup Mile (1987, 1988)
