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Article: OBITUARY:Jacques Wertheimer
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 10, 1996
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Jacques Wertheimer was the third member of one of Europe's
oldest and most successful racing dynasties. He took over his
family's racing and breeding interests on the death of his mother,
Mme Pierre Wertheimer, in 1974.
The first winner in Pierre Wertheimer's blue with white braces,
sleeves and cap was in 1911, and the first Wertheimer champion was
Epinard in the early 1920s. Since then the Wertheimers have raced
and bred a succession of champions and maintained a level of
involvement which has become extremely rare in European racing.
Equally unusual is the Wertheimer family's link with the Head
family. Alec Head begain to train for Pierre Wertheimer nearly 50
years ago and remains the ...