Hippism: "We do not sell our children"

One hour after the victory of his champion, HoldthasigreenIn the Royal Oak Award, Claude Le Lay has stars in his eyes. Moreover, he has for several years thanks to the one he calls "crack". With a British coalition and a quality Irish, the game was far from being won in advance.

The victory of Holthasigreen

"Charly Appleby prefers to secure a Group I win for Brundtland Could be read here and there in the British press about who would have been one of the horses for the last Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. However, yesterday in Chantilly, on the occasion of the Royal Oak Award (Gr. I), David has defeated Goliath or rather Holdthasigreen has written a new chapter of the fairy tale that he makes live to his entourage. A small establishment with a dozen horses in the Sarthe picks the laurels promised to Godolphin, the multinational Dubai and its hundreds of millions of euros investment since its inception in the early 1990s. "I'm on a cloud! This is an incredible horse, launches Claude Le Lay, his former coach and co-owner, who won his first Group I. It is a gift fallen from the sky. I wish every racing lover to know once what I am living. "

Offers from Australia, all rejected

While the aforementioned Brundtland and Irish Flag of Honor are frightened by the pbadage of road (a portion of sand across the grbad track), the "monster" as described by his jockey Tony Piccone, takes the opportunity to take the lead. It then remains about 2,000 m to go on the 3,000 imposed but no one will see again Holdthasigreen and Tony Piccone, who wins his third Group I. Once is not custom, the podium is composed exclusively of horses trained in France. "At the halfway point, I knew he was going to finish, because his jockey had not yet really sought other unlike the others, says Claude Le Lay. Then we encouraged him to the post. It was a fabulous moment. After this victory, "that of a life", Claude Le Lay was not solicited only by the press: "The Australians do not stop calling me to make me offers but we do not sell his children ! "