Dreaper trained seven consecutive Irish Grand National winners from 1960 to 1966, including Arkle and Flyingbolt, and
Secly monopolised the Prix La Haye Jousselin between 1993 and 1999 thanks to one horse, Al Capone.
Very useful in France when trained by Bernard
Secly, he was impressive on his first run for us when winning Chepstow's Finale Juvenile Hurdle by eight lengths.
Bernard
Secly trains Frosted Aclaim, the winner, for the Marquesa de Moratalla.
The brothers, whose fortune - which derives from the French fashion house Chanel - has been estimated at pounds 2.3 billion, are adding to their roster of regular trainers Criquette Head-Maarek, her brother Freddie, her son-in-law Carlos Laffon Parias and jumps trainer Bernard
Secly. Pierre-Yves Bureau, director of the Wertheimers' stud, told Paris Turf that the move was based on the brothers' desire to diversify.
Northerntown has been with Bernard
Secly since mid-2001 and the trainer says: "The horse has become a