Cédric Ségeon is a French professional

jockey A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing. The word "jockey" originated from England and was used to describe the individual ...

, popularly known as "Frenchie". With about 700 wins around the world including the Macau Derby with Analyst, he is widely regarded as a globetrotter.

Early life

Ségeon was born in

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

a countryside in France. His love for animals and horses got him into in horse riding. He began to ride when he was eight years old.

Career

Ségeon became an apprentice jockey with Corine Barande-Barbe. after his training at AFASEC (Association de Formation et d' Action Sociale des Écuries de Courses). At AFASEC he shared the same room with the crack jockey

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. Ségeon won his first race in the year 2000 with Val Ramier for trainer Nicolas Clément. Ségeon won the Champion Apprentice title in 2001. "Segeon has amassed over 70 winners including 5 big handicaps and places in Listed Races out of over 1,000 rides." He has had a successful career in Asia where he competed with the best jockeys in the world. He excelled especially in Macau where he won the Derby. Cédric Ségéon is considered to be a globetrotter because apart from the Hexagon, he has ridden in Belgium, Tunisia, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Qatar, India and in Mauritius which he considers home. Ségeon appeared in the 2011 French film named '' Stretch'' directed by

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. The film was about a jockey who failed a drug test. Ségeon played the part of Cédric, one of the jockeys in the film. He has been crowned champion jockey and ride of the day award winner 2014 in

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

Major wins

* The Duchesse Of York Cup - (3) - ''Royal Chalon (2011)'', ''Silver Bluff (2015)'', ''Baritone (2018)'' * The Princess Margaret Cup G1 - (2) - ''Liquid Motion (2013)'', ''Baritone (2018)'' * The Maiden Cup G1 - (1) - ''Alshibaa (2020)'' * The Lightning Cup G3 - (1) - ''Ernie (2017)''

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

* Macau Derby G1 - (1) - ''Analyst (2003)''

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

* Committee's Prize G3 - (1) - ''Diamond Dust (2006)''

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...

* Umm Bab Cup - (1) - ''Al Uraiq Secret (2016)''

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

* Sprint Trophy G1 (1) - ''Triple Happy (2006)''

References

External links

Official website (CON) C. Segeon
- Macau Jockey Club {{DEFAULTSORT:Segeon, Cedric Living people Year of birth missing (living people) French jockeys Sportspeople from Normandy