Alain Lequeux

Alain Lequeux was a French flat-racing jockey, born in 1947 and the son of the leading French rider Guy Lequeux. He rode in France from 1963 to 1992 and won more than 2,000 races, including 33 Group or Grade 1 contests. Among his best-known victories were the 1974 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, the French One Thousand Guineas, on Dumka, the 1979 St. Leger Stakes in England on Son of Love, and the 1981 Washington, D.C. International Stakes in the United States on Providential for the trainer Charlie Whittingham. After retiring from the saddle he ran the Cafe Lequeux in Chantilly, close to the Chantilly racecourse, and was known as a gourmet. He died in hospital at Senlis in the Oise department on 26 April 2006, aged 59, of a cerebral hemorrhage.