SINCE the beginning of the month the Head family have struck a seam of gold. On October 5th, Criquette won the Qatar Arc de Triomphe for the second year running with Treve and also added the Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere with Full Mast.

The same afternoon her brother Freddy won the Prix de l’Opera Longines with the astonishing We Are. But the run did not stop there are as the patriarch (Alec) of the family’s son went on to take the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot last Saturday with Charm Spirit and the following day Criquette captured the Group 3 Prix de Conde at Longchamp with another very smart juvenile owned and bred by Khalid Abdullah called Epicuris.