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Prix Du Muguet
The Prix du Muguet is a Group 2 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1,600 metres (about 1 mile) at Saint-Cloud in early May. History The event is traditionally held at Saint-Cloud on 1 May, the French public holiday of Fête du Travail and Fête du Muguet. It is named after Muguet, the French word for the spring-flowering plant Lily of the Valley. The Prix du Muguet was formerly a 2,000-metre race restricted to three-year-olds. The present version, a 1,600-metre race for older horses, was introduced in 1967. It was contested over 2,000 metres at Longchamp in 1968. The race was not run in 1971, and it resumed with Group 3 status in 1972. It was absent again in 1974, and for a period thereafter it was sometimes staged at Longchamp (1976–77, 1982–83 and 1985). The Prix du Muguet was promoted to Group 2 level in 1995. Records Most successf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northjet
Northjet (foaled 22 May 1977) was an Irish-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed useful form in his early career, winning five races in Italy including the Group Two Premio Melton before being transferred to race in France in 1980. In early 1981 he won the Prix du Muguet but was beaten in several races and appeared to be just below the highest class. Northjet established his reputation in the late summer of 1981 when he recorded a five length victory over a very strong field in the Prix Jacques Le Marois and then won the Prix du Moulin in course record time. He was generally recognised as the best older horse and the best miler to race in Europe that season. He was then retired to stud where he was a complete failure as a breeding stallion. Background Northjet was a chestnut horse with a broad white blaze and white socks on his front legs. He was sired by Northfields, an American horse whose biggest win came in the Louisiana Derby in 1971, before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Peslier
Olivier Peslier (born 12 January 1973 in Château-Gontier) is a French thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Peslier competes in flat racing mainly in France but travels often around the world for the big international races. From 2003 to 2014, he was a retained jockey for the Wertheimer et Frère horse racing and breeding business partnership of brothers Alain Wertheimer, Alain and Gérard Wertheimer of France. In his free time, Peslier plays paintball, an unusual hobby for a jockey. Career wins in France ''* = French flat racing Champion Jockey, Champion Jockey'' * 1991 – ''46'' * 1992 – ''31'' * 1993 – ''91'' * 1994 – ''116'' * 1995 – ''132'' * 1996 – ''163'' * * 1997 – ''157'' * * 1998 – ''142'' * 1999 – ''147'' * * 2000 – ''162'' * * 2001 – ''148'' * 2002 – ''98'' * 2003 – ''109'' * 2004 – ''123'' * 2005 – ''99'' * 2006 – ''107'' * 2007 – ''94'' * 2008 – ''87'' * 2009 – ''92'' * 2010 – ''105'' * 2011 – ''91'' * 2012 - ''90'' Major wins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Philipperon
Maurice Philipperon is a noted French jockey who after retirement became president of the French jockeys' association. He is born on 20 march 1945. His winning rides in Gr. 1 and 2 races included: * the Prix Ganay in 1970, 1971 and 1980 on Grandier, Caro and Arctic Tern. * the Poule d'Essai des Poulains in 1974, 1979 and 1989 on Moulines, Irish River and Kendor. * the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp in 1977, 1979 and 1983 on Pharly, Irish River and Luth Enchantee. * the Prix Lupin in 1977 and 1980 on Pharly and Belgio. * the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches in 1970 and 1980 on Pampered Miss and Aryenne. * the Prix Maurice de Gheest in 1982 and 1985 on Exclusive Order and Spectacular Joke. * the Prix Jacques Le Marois in 1979 and 1983 on Irish River and Luth Enchantee. * the Prix Morny in 1968, 1978, 1980 and 1987 on Princeline, Irish River, Ancien Régime and First Waltz. * the Grand Critérium (now Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère) in 1979 and 1989 on Irish River and Kendor. * the Prix d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Wertheimer
Jacques Guy Wertheimer (18 August 1911 – 6 February 1996) was a prominent French businessman who inherited and ran the renowned House of Chanel perfume company. Wertheimer was born at Les Forgettes villa in Deauville, to a Jewish family,World's Richest Jews ''Jerusalem Post'' the son of Germaine Revel and businessman Pierre Wertheimer who co-founded the Chanel perfume business in 1924. On 26 March 1947, Jacques Wertheimer married Eliane Fischer (1925-2024), the daughter of an . They had two sons, Alai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criquette Head-Maarek
Christiane "Criquette" Head (born 6 November 1948 at Marly-le-Roi, near Maisons-Laffitte, France) is a retired French racehorse trainer. Known as Criquette, she was born into the Thoroughbred horse racing business. Her great grandfather was a jockey-turned-trainer as was her grandfather William Head who was a very successful jockey, trainer, and owner in both flat racing and steeplechase events. Her father, Alec Head, became a successful trainer and breeder and the owner of Haras du Quesnay thoroughbred breeding farm near Deauville. The eldest of three daughters, her brother Freddy Head has been the champion jockey six times in France who later became a horse trainer, and sister Martine oversaw the operations at Haras du Quesnay until its closure in November 2022. Background In her teens, Criquette Head studied for three years in the United Kingdom at schools in Guildford in Surrey and Eastbourne in East Sussex. She started riding ponies as a child then at age 18 began compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavros Niarchos
Stavros Spyrou Niarchos (, ; 3 July 1909 – 15 April 1996) was a Greek billionaire shipping tycoon. Starting in 1952, he had the world's biggest supertankers built for his fleet. Propelled by both the Suez Crisis and increasing demand for oil, he and rival Aristotle Onassis became giants in global petroleum shipping. Niarchos was also a noted thoroughbred horse breeder and racer, several times the leading owner and number one on the French breed list. Early life Niarchos was born in Athens to a wealthy family, the son of Spyros Niarchos and his wife, Eugenie Koumantaros, a rich heiress, both born in the village of Vamvakou in the Peloponnese. His parents were naturalized Americans who had owned a department store in Buffalo, New York, before returning to Greece, three months prior to his birth. They returned to Buffalo for a brief time, and the young Stavros attended the Nardin Academy grammar school. They returned, permanently, to Greece, and Stavros studied in the city's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Boutin
François Boutin (21 January 1937 – 1 February 1995) was a France, French Thoroughbred horse trainer. The son of a farmer, he was born in the village of Beaunay in the northerly Seine Maritime département. He began riding horses at a young age and competed in show jumping and cross-country equestrianism. He began his professional racing career driving horses in harness racing then after serving as a flat racing apprentice, obtained his license as a trainer in 1964. François Boutin was the trainer for the stables of Jean-Luc Lagardère and for the Stavros Niarchos family. During his more than thirty-year career he was the leading money winner in France seven times (1976, 1978–81, 1983–84). Although victory eluded him in France's most prestigious horse race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Boutin won the Poule d'Essai des Poulains on six occasions and most every other important race in the country multiple times. Racing outside France Boutin's horse Sagaro was the first to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cash Asmussen
Cash Asmussen (born March 15, 1962, in Agar, South Dakota, Agar, South Dakota) is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born Brian Keith Asmussen, in 1977 he legally changed his name to "Cash". From a Texas horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, operate a ranch in Laredo, Texas, Laredo in Webb County, Texas, Webb County, Texas. His brother, Steve Asmussen, is a successful horse trainer in American racing. He is Currently Residing in Laredo Texas, with his Wife, Erica Asmussen and three daughters. Career Asmussen scored his first important graded stakes race win at the Beldame Stakes in 1979 and won that year's Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. In 1981, he rode Wayward Lass to victory in the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park (over the 1-5 entry of De La Rose and Heavenly Cause, who ran last and next-to-last), and traveled to Japan where he won the Japan Cup. The following year he won the Washington, D.C. International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. Starting in the 1950s, he composed hundreds of pop songs, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. Bacharach's music is characterized by unusual chord progressions and time signature changes, influenced by his background in jazz, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. He arranged, conducted, and produced much of his recorded output. More than 1,000 different artists have recorded Bacharach's songs. From 1961 to 1972, most of Bacharach and David's hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick, but earlier associations (from 1957 to 1963) saw the composing duo work with Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Gene McDaniels, and Jerry Butler. Following the initial success of these collaborations, Bacharach w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christy Roche
Christy Roche (born 3 December 1949 in Bansha, County Tipperary) is a retired Irish flat racing Champion Jockey and racehorse trainer. Over his thirty-year career between 1968 and 1998 he won the Irish Derby three times, in 1982, 1992 and 1997. His 1997 victory was on Desert King. In Britain he won the Epsom Derby on Secreto in 1984 and the Epsom Oaks on Jet Ski Lady in 1991. By the time of his retirement as a jockey Roche had already begun a career as a trainer. Amongst the major winners he trained were Like-A-Butterfly in the 2002 Supreme Novices' Hurdle and Grimes in the 2001 Galway Plate. He retired as a trainer in January 2018 and handed over his training licence to his son, Padraig. Major wins (as a jockey) Great Britain * Derby Stakes - '' Secreto (1984)'' * Fillies' Mile - ''Icing (1975)'' * International Stakes - ''Ivory Frontier (1993)'' * Oaks Stakes - '' Jet Ski Lady (1991)'' * William Hill Futurity - '' Sandy Creek (1978)'' * Yorkshire Oaks - ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wertheimer Et Frère
Wertheimer et Frère is a Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding business partnership between brothers Alain and Gérard Wertheimer of France. The Wertheimer brothers are the owners of the House of Chanel in Paris. They inherited that company and the horse racing business from their father Jacques who had inherited a racing stable from his parents Pierre and Germaine Wertheimer. The brothers operate as La Presle Farm and/or Wertheimer Farm in the United States and in France as Wertheimer et Frère where they have won numerous important Conditions races. Alec Head trained for the family in Europe until his retirement in 1984 but for a number of years continued to act as their bloodstock advisor. Head's daughter Christiane "Criquette" Head took over as trainer in 1983 and continued to have great success until they ended their working relationship in 2006. In the United States, the Wertheimer brothers won the 1993 Breeders' Cup Turf and earned American Horse of the Year hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godolphin (racing)
Godolphin (Arabic: جودولفين) is the Maktoum family's private Thoroughbred horseracing stable and was named in honour of the Godolphin Arabian, who came from the desert to become one of the three founding stallions of the modern Thoroughbred. Godolphin is buried at Wandlebury Park in Cambridge, where there is a stone to commemorate the horse in the passageway of the old buildings. Godolphin's headquarters are in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It operates two racing stables in Newmarket, UK, two in Sydney, Australia, one in Melbourne, Australia, and also has horses in training with independent trainers in Great Britain, Australia, France, Japan, the United States, and Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan .... UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
