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Prix De Meautry
The Prix de Meautry is a Group 3 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Deauville over a distance of 1,200 metres (about 6 furlongs), and it is scheduled to take place each year in August. History The event is named after Haras de Meautry, a successful stud farm located near Deauville. It was established in 1877, and was initially contested over 900 metres. It was extended to 1,000 metres in 1887. The race was abandoned throughout World War I, with no running from 1914 to 1918. A new distance of 1,200 metres was introduced in 1922. Deauville Racecourse was closed during World War II, and the Prix de Meautry was cancelled in 1940. For the remainder of this period it was switched between Maisons-Laffitte (1941–43, 1945) and Longchamp (1944). The Longchamp edition was run over a length of 1,300 metres. Records Most successful horse (4 wins): * Cricket Ball – ''1986, 1987, 1988, 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deauville-La Touques Racecourse
Hippodrome Deauville-La Touques is a race track for thoroughbred horse racing located in Deauville in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, département, in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy ''Regions of France, région'' of France. Originally called Hippodrome de la Touques, it was named for the Touques River that separates the city of Deauville from Trouville-sur-Mer. It was constructed in 1862 by Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de Morny, the half brother of Napoleon III. The countryside around Deauville is the main horse breeding region in France and home to numerous stud farms. Races Group 1: * Prix Jacques Le Marois * Prix Jean Romanet * Prix Maurice de Gheest * Prix Morny * Prix Rothschild * Prix Jean Prat Group 2: * Grand Prix de Deauville * Prix Guillaume d'Ornano * Prix Kergorlay * Prix de Pomone Group 3: * Prix de Cabourg * Prix du Calvados * Prix Gontaut-Biron * Prix de Lieurey * Prix de Meautry * Prix Minerve * Prix de la Nonette * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilijaro
Kilijaro (8 February 1976 – after 1990) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and Horse breeding#Terminology, broodmare. She was the best filly of her generation in Ireland at both two and three years of age, winning the Phoenix Stakes and finishing second in the Queen Mary Stakes, Cheveley Park Stakes, Prix de l'Abbaye and Prix de la Forêt. When transferred to France in 1980 she proved herself one of the best sprinter-milers of the year, with consecutive wins in the Prix de Meautry, Prix Quincey, Prix du Moulin and Prix de Seine-et-Oise before traveling to California to take the Yellow Ribbon Stakes. She remained in the United Stakes in 1981 and was one of the most successful female turf performers of 1981, winning the San Gorgonio Handicap, Monrovia Handicap, Gamely Handicap, Palomar Handicap, Autumn Days Handicap and Matriarch Stakes. After her retirement from racing she made little impact as a broodmare, but some of her descendants have won good races in Australia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Lewis
Geoff Lewis (born 21 December 1935) is a Welsh retired jockey who was born in Talgarth, Breconshire. He moved to London with his family (he was one of thirteen children) in 1946. After initially working as a hotel page boy, he started his racing career as an apprentice with Ron Smyth, who was a trainer in Epsom. He will be best remembered as the jockey who won the 1,000 Guineas, 2,000 Guineas, Epsom Oaks (twice), Coronation Cup, and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Most watchers of the sport of horse racing would consider that his greatest moment came in 1971 when he rode Mill Reef to win The Derby. He was regarded as one of Europe's leading jockeys between 1953 and 1979. Geoff Lewis retired as a jockey in 1979, after which he applied for a trainer's licence and began to train at Thirty Acre Barn, near Epsom racecourse. He trained almost 500 winners before his retirement to Spain in 1999. In 2014 he moved back to Cranleigh, to be near his daughter in Ewhurst. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Coniston
Lake Coniston (21 February 1991 – 29 May 2014) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire (horse), sire. After being sold as a yearling (horse), yearling for 22,000 guinea (coin), guineas he was sent to be trained in England by Geoff Lewis. Unraced as a juvenile, he established himself as a top-class sprinter as a three-year-old with wins in the Hackwood Stakes, Prix de Meautry and Diadem Stakes. He was even better at four, winning the Abernant Stakes, Duke of York Stakes and July Cup. His performance in the last-named race saw him regarded as one of the best British sprinters of modern times. He stood as a breeding stallion in Ireland, England, Australia, New Zealand, Italy and South Africa with limited success. He died in South Africa in 2014 at the age of 23. Background Lake Coniston was a bay horse with a small white star bred in Ireland by J. P. McManus. He was sired by Bluebird, a Kentucky-bred, Irish-trained sprinter who won the King's Stand Stak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Swinburn
Walter Robert John Swinburn (7 August 1961 – 12 December 2016) was a flat racing jockey and trainer who competed in Great Britain and internationally. Biography Swinburn was born in Oxford. He was the son of Wally Swinburn, who won the Irish flat racing Champion Jockey title in 1976 and 1977 and was the first jockey to record over 100 winners in an Irish flat season. Nicknamed the "Choirboy", he rode his first winner, Paddy's Luck, on 12 July 1978 at Kempton Park Racecourse, Kempton Park but gained considerable fame for riding the superstar Shergar to victory in Epsom Derby, The Derby in 1981 by a record 10 lengths. Swinburn went on to win the Derby two more times. In 1983, he rode All Along to victory in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe then the filly captured 1983 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year honors with three straight major event wins in North America: the Washington, D.C. International Stakes, Washington, D.C. International at Laurel Park (race track), Laurel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twafeaj
Twafeaj (22 February 1989 – after 2007) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from May 1991 until October 1992 she ran fourteen times in four different countries and won three races. As a juvenile in 1991 she finished second in the Princess Margaret Stakes before recording her biggest win in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. As a three-year-old she struggled for form early in the year but did much better when switched to sprint races, winning the Prix de Meautry as well as being placed in the Prix Maurice de Gheest and the Goldene Peitsche. She had little success as a broodmare, producing only two minor winners. Background Twafeaj was a bay mare bred in Kentucky by Bill H Melton. In July 1990, the filly was consigned to the Keeneland Summer Select Yearling Sale at Lexington, Kentucky and was bought for $120,000 by representatives of Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Gainsborough Stud. She was sent to Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Fabre
André Fabre (; born 9 December 1945) is a French thoroughbred horse racing horse trainer, trainer. The son of a diplomat, Fabre graduated from university with a law degree but then decided to pursue a career in thoroughbred horse racing. He began by working in the stables as a groom then as a schooling rider. He became France's leading steeplechase (horse racing), jump jockey, winning more than two hundred and fifty races including the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris. When he turned to training horses, Fabre proved even more successful, first with jump horses then with flat racing, flat racers. He has been the champion trainer in France on 30 occasions, including 21 straight years from 1987 to 2007, and is one of the most successful trainers in the world, winning across Europe and North America including four Breeders' Cup races. Among the many champions Fabre has trained are Trempolino, Peintre Celebre, and two horses ranked World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings, No. 1 in the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Boeuf
Dominique Boeuf (born 6 June 1968 at Maisons-Laffitte, France) is a jockey in Thoroughbred flat racing. He began his career while still a teen and won his first race on 15 September 1984. Three years later, he got his first Group One win aboard Groom Dancer in the 1987 Prix Lupin. From there, he went on to become the French flat racing Champion Jockey four times. In 2003, Boeuf won the Air Mauritius / Beau Rivage International Jockeys Day. Major wins France * Prix de Diane - (2) - ''Aquarelliste (2001), Bright Sky (2002)'' * Poule d'Essai des Pouliches - (1) - ''Danseuse du Soir (1991)'' * Critérium de Saint-Cloud - (6) - ''Pistolet Bleu (1990), Glaieul (1991), Marchand de Sable (1992), Spadoun (1998), Goldamix (1999), Voix du Nord (2003)'' * Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud - (2) - ''Epervier Bleu (1991), Pistolet Bleu (1992)'' * Prix du Cadran - (2) - ''Westerner (2003), Le Miracle (2007)'' * Prix de la Forêt - (1) - ''Danseuse du Soir (1991)'' * Prix Ganay - (2) - ''Vert Amand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérald Mossé
Gérald Mossé (born 3 January 1967 in France) is a jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding professionally in April 1983. His success during his apprenticeship under Patrick-Louis Biancone led to an offer to ride for renowned trainer François Boutin. His stable of horses belonging to Jean-Luc Lagardère. Mossé went on to become one of his country's top jockeys, winning the 1990 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In 1991, he rode Arazi to five straight wins in France then spent 1992 and part of 1993 racing in Hong Kong. From 1993 to late 2001, Gérald Mossé was the principal rider for the horses belonging to the Aga Khan IV. He then returned to live and race in Hong Kong (where he is also known in Chinese as 巫斯義) but continues to ride in major European and international races. On November 2, 2010, Mossé became the first French jockey to win the Melbourne Cup on the US bred horse Americain. He added 35 victories in 2010/2011, he is one of an elite group of joc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hide
Edward William George Hide (12 April 1937 – 7 September 2023) was a British multiple classic winning jockey. He was, at his peak, the sixth most successful jockey in British racing history and remained the ninth most successful jockey over 30 years after his retirement. Early years Edward William George Hide was born on 12 April 1937, in Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, to Bill Hide and Connie (née Edwards). He was initially apprentice to his father, Bill, and had his first race ride on 29 August 1950, aged 13, on a horse called Copper Wire, which came last in a race at Birmingham. He would have his first winner a year later – Ritornello at Chepstow on 22 September 1951. Career During his career, Hide was mainly seen on the northern and Scottish racing circuit. He rode for the Malton-based trainers Charles Elsey and his son Bill, and was often associated with Mick Easterby, winning the 1977 1,000 Guineas for the trainer, but was never officially stable jockey. Briefly, he was ... [...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] |
Freddy Head
Frédéric Head (born 19 June 1947) is a retired horse trainer and champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. His grandfather, William Head, and father, Alec Head, who also competed as prominent jockeys and trainers, raised “Freddy,” at the Haras du Quesnay, initially managed by Alec and later by Martine Head (Freddy’s sister), in Deauville Deauville () is a communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados department, Normandy (administrative region), Normandy, northwestern France. Major attractions include its port, harbour, Race track, race course, marinas, con ... until its closure in November 2022. In the 1976 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Freddy 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, Freddy Head scored a number of important Conditions races, Group I wins in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
