FREDDY Head has struck with nine of his 30 Deauville starters and made it a trio of pattern successes with three-year-old fillies when Tantheem returned from a four and a half month absence to blitz her 10 rivals in the Prix de Meautry Barriere.

This may have only been a Group 3 – Head’s other Deauville leading ladies, With You and Polydream both struck in Group 1s – but it was a performance worthy of a much grander stage.