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Charles Henri Semblat, (1897–1972) was a French jockey and racehorse trainer. Semblat was leading French jockey for more than twenty years before his riding career was ended by injury. He subsequently had an even more successful career as trainer for the owner-breeder Marcel Boussac. In 1950 he became Champion Trainer in Britain without ever visiting the country. Semblat is the only person to have both ridden and trained the winner of France's most important race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. ==Riding career== Semblat became an apprentice jockey at a young age and rode his first winner at the age of 13 in 1910. For a time he rode both on the flat and over jumps, before specialising in the former discipline. He attracted the attention of some of the leading figures French racing and became closely associated with the Chantilly trainers William Cunnington and Frank Carter. Among the horses he rode for Carter were Mon Talisman (Prix du Jockey Club and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1927), Pearl Cap (Arc de Triomphe 1931) and Clairvoyant (Prix du Jockey Club and Grand Prix de Paris). Semblat was the leading jockey in France for five successive years from 1924 (when he was only the second French-born rider to win that title) and added a sixth championship in 1934. During this period he was regarded as "easily the best jockey in France", and his status was comparable to that of the British Champion Steve Donoghue. In 1927 his achievements were recognised when he was presented with the Mérite agricole award by the French Minister of Agriculture. He won a third Arc on the seven-year-old Motrico in 1937 and in the same year he won his only British Classic Race winner when he rode the Carter-trained outsider Le Ksar to success in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse. Le Ksar failed in the Epsom Derby despite Semblat's confidence: he claimed to have made a careful study of the course "with maps and a book" and to have "already won the race on paper". Following the outbreak of the Second World War, the British jockey Charlie Elliott returned to England, giving up his job as the first jockey for the Marcel Boussac the dominant owner-breeder of his time. Semblat replaced Elliott and rode for Boussac with considerable success and soon took over the role of trainer. In 1944 Semblat sustained serious injuries in a fall which forced him to retire from riding.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Semblat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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