CRIQUETTE HEAD-MAAREK – trainer of the brilliant Treve – has announced she is set to retire.
Having saddled Treve to two Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe victories along with a number of high-profile stars, the top French handler has decided to end her training career.
She will instead plan to devote more time to the family stud, Haras du Quesnay in Deauville after she saddles her final runners on February 1.
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“I’ve got some runners on Friday and I’ve got runners on the 1st of February and then I will stop. I am 70 years old,” she told Press Association Sport.
“It was a tough decision to take, because it is always tough when you decide to change.
“It is a big change for me. I have been training since 1977, so 41 years.
“I owe everything to every owner I have worked with – Prince Khalid Abdullah, Maktoum Al Maktoum, the Wertheimer Brothers, my dad (Alec Head). I owe everything to my dad.
“I have had so many good owners in my life and I was very lucky to train good horses.”
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