Freddy Head (born 19 June 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. In 2008, he became the first man ever to win Breeders' Cup races as both a jockey and trainer when Goldikova won the Mile.
France
Critérium de Saint-Cloud – (2) - Providential (1979), Poliglote (1994)) Grand Critérium (Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère ) - (2) - Saint Cyrien (1982), Hector Protector (1990) Grand Prix de Paris - (2) - Dhaudevi (1968), Chapparal (1969) Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud - (3) - Riverqueen (1976), Exceller (1977), Gay Mecene (1979)Poule d'Essai des Poulains - (6) - Green Dancer (1975), Red Lord (1976), Blushing John (1988), Linamix (1990), Hector Protector (1991), Shanghai (1992)Poule d'Essai des Pouliches - (8) - Ivanjica (1975), Riverqueen (1976), Dancing Maid (1978), Three Troikas (1979), Silvermine (1985), Miesque (1987), Matiara (1995), Always Loyal (1997)Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp - (2) - Pentathlon (1967), Sigy (1978) Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - (4) - Bon Mot (1966), San San (1972), Ivanjica (1976), Three Troikas (1979) Prix d'Astarté - (6) - Carabella (1967), Prudent Miss (1970), Thorough (1982), Northern Aspen (1985), Navratilovna (1986), Hydro Calido (1992) Prix du Cadran - (2) - Gold River (1981), Karkour (1983)Prix de Diane - (4) - Pistol Packer (1971), Reine de Saba (1978), Harbour (1982), Lacovia (1986) Prix de la Forêt - (5) - Barbare (1966), Regent Street (1968), Lyphard (1972), Ma Biche (1983), Septieme Ciel (1990) Prix Ganay - (1) - Baillamont (1986) Prix d'Ispahan - (4) - Riverman (1972), Carwhite (1978), Baillamont (1986), Miesque (1988)Prix Jacques le Marois - (6) - Carabella (1967), Lyphard (1972), Northjet (1981), Miesque (1987 & 1988), Hector Protector (1991) Prix Jean Prat - (2) - Riverman (1972), Le Triton (1996)Prix du Jockey-Club - (4) - Goodly (1969), Roi Lear (1973), Val de l'Orne (1975), Youth (1976) Prix Lupin - (4) - Green Dancer (1975), Youth (1976), Cudas (1991), Johann Quatz (1992)Prix Marcel Boussac - (2) - Miesque (1986), Macoumba (1994) Prix Maurice de Gheest - (1) - Anabaa (1996)Prix Morny - (4) - Daring Display (1971), Princesse Lida (1979), Machiavellian (1989), Hector Protector (1990) Prix du Moulin de Longchamp - (3) - Kilijaro (1980), Northjet (1981), Miesque (1987) Prix de l'Opéra - (1) - Reine Mathilde (1984) Prix Royal-Oak - (6) - Dhaudevi (1968), Bourbon (1971), Busiris (1974), Gold River (1980), Agent Double (1984), Top Sunrise (1989) Prix Saint-Alary - (9) - Tidra (1967), Pistol Packer (1971), Riverqueen (1976), Reine de Saba (1978), Three Troikas (1979), Harbour (1982), Fitnah (1985), Lacovia (1986), Treble (1991) Prix de la Salamandre - (8) - Delmora (1974), Princesse Lida (1979), Maximova (dead-heat, 1982), Baiser Vole (1985), Miesque (1986), Common Grounds (1987), Machiavellian (1989), Hector Protector (1990) Prix Vermeille - (3) - Pistol Packer (1971), Dancing Maid (1978), Three Troikas (1979) Canada
E. P. Taylor Stakes - (1) - Devalois (1985) Germany
Grosser Preis von Berlin - (1) - Lydian (1981) Great Britain
1,000 Guineas - (2) - Ma Biche (1983), Miesque (1987) 2,000 Guineas - (1) - Zino (1982) Cheveley Park Stakes - (2) - Ma Biche (1982), Pas de Reponse (1996) Cork and Orrery Stakes (Golden Jubilee Stakes) - (1) - King's Company (1971) July Cup - (1) - Anabaa (1996)Racing Post Trophy - (1) - Green Dancer (1974)
Ireland
Irish 2,000 Guineas - (1) - King's Company (1971) National Stakes - (1) - King's Company (1970) Italy
Gran Premio del Jockey Club - (1) - Authi (1974) Gran Premio di Milano - (1) - Beau Charmeur (1972)
United States
Breeders' Cup Mile - (2) - Miesque (1987 & 1988) France
Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp - (1) - Marchand d'Or (2008)Prix de la Forêt - (2) - Goldikova (2010), Moonlight Cloud (2013)Prix d'Ispahan - (3) - Goldikova (2010, 2011), Solow (2015) Prix Jacques Le Marois - (3) - Tamayuz (2008), Goldikova (2009), Moonlight Cloud (2013) Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère - (1) - Naaqoos (2008) Prix Jean Prat - (2) - Tamayuz (2008), Charm Spirit (2014) Prix Maurice de Gheest - (6) - Marchand d'Or (2006, 2007, 2008), Moonlight Cloud (2011, 2012, 2013) Prix du Moulin de Longchamp - (3) - Goldikova (2008), Moonlight Cloud (2012), Charm Spirit (2014) Prix de l'Opéra - (1) - We Are (2014) Prix Rothschild - (4) - Goldikova (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) Prix Saint-Alary - (1) - Queen's Jewel (2015) Prix Vermeille - (1) - Galikova (2011) Great Britain
Falmouth Stakes - (1) - Goldikova (2009) July Cup - (1) - Marchand d'Or (2008) Queen Anne Stakes - (2) - Goldikova (2010), Solow (2015) Queen Elizabeth II Stakes - (2) - Charm Spirit (2014), Solow (2015) Sussex Stakes - (1) - Solow (2015) United States
Breeders' Cup Mile - (3) - Goldikova (2008, 2009, 2010) United Arab Emirates
Dubai Turf - (1) - Solow (2015) 
