Christophe Clement initially acquired his training skills from father Miguel, a leading trainer in France, Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head.
Eventually his owners sold the colt and in 1974 he was sent to breeders in Ireland then in 1979 to Haras du Quesnay at Deauville, France owned by renowned breeder Alec Head.
He was then sent to France where he was trained by Alec Head at Chantilly.
Green Dancer was raced in France by Germaine Wertheimer's son, Jacques, and trained by Alec Head.
In 1958 the farm was acquired by prominent French horseman Alec Head, a descendant of the trainers who founded the English Racing Colony in Chantilly, Oise.
Alec Head trained for the family until his retirement in 1984 but for a number of years continued to act as their bloodstock advisor.
There, renowned French trainer and breeder Alec Head purchased him on behalf of Madame Germaine Wertheimer, widow of the prominent French horseman and owner of the famous House of Chanel, Pierre Wertheimer.
Alec Head – Kilette (1950), Frere Georges (1953), Sheshoon (1960), Folkestone (1973)
Trained by Alec Head, Riverman was sent to the track in 1971 where he won the Prix Yacowlef and finished second in the Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte.
At age four Sovereign Dancer was sold to Alec Head's Haras du Quesnay near Deauville in the Lower Normandy region of France where he complied a record of two wins, three seconds, and a third in ten starts on grass for trainer Criquette Head-Maarek.
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.
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