ENGLISH TEXTS of Dubawi seems essential today for the hope of a future stallion, as his sons demonstrate, notably Night of Thunder. A cross between Dubawi and the blood of Galileo, Lope de Vega or Invincible Spirit seems to me among the best options to obtain a stallion’ s pedigree. These crosses work very well.
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HENRI BOZO
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By Mégane Martins
Galorama. Which stallion has impressed you the most in terms of bloodline?
Henri Bozo. Siyouni. He is a stallion who crosses easily with many bloodlines, bringing substance and turn of foot to mares with more classic pedigrees. He has worked well with daughters of Galileo.
G. Which stallion would be your personal favourite?
H. B. Night Of Thunder. For me, he is an exceptional stallion, and like Wootton Bassett, he rose to the top purely through merit.
G. What would be your ideal cross to make a stallion?
H. B. The ideal cross would be one capable of producing a Group 1 horse with a fine turn of foot, and free of
Dubawi and Galileo blood. We all need new bloodlines to complement the broodmares we already have, in the mould of Wootton Bassett or Starman.
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PIERRE TALVARD
Galorama. Which stallion has impressed you the most in terms of bloodline?
Pierre Talvard. Wootton Bassett, through the results of his progeny, which seem quite exceptional to me and I rather fear he may surpass Galileo, Sadler’ s Wells and Northern Dancer.
G. Which stallion would be your personal favourite?
P. T. Le Havre, the sire of Leffard. I went to him rather late, but I bred two Group winners and two Listed winners from six foals.
G. What would be your ideal cross to make a stallion?
P. T. I would say that the success of today’ s stallions such as Wootton Bassett or Mehmas lies in the absence of Northern Dancer in their blood. If we could have a few more outcross stallions, that would be perfect.
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By Serge Okey
“ I REMAIN A GREAT ADMIRER OF MONTJEU”
Historical head of nominations sales at Haras d’ Etreham, Franck Champion is among those who transformed the breeding of NH horses with the stallion Saint des Saints within a stud until then renowned above all for its flat racing champions.
Galorama. Can you remind us how Saint des Saints left his mark on the National Hunt stud-book?
Franck Champion. We bought him with Marc de Chambure( Nicolas’ uncle, who was then running Etreham) at the end of his three-year-old season. A son of the great NH sire Cadoudal, the undisputed leader of the studbook, and out of Chamisene, a Group-winning mare on the flat. The six-figure deal, in euros, was a major event in the NH microcosm. With this new type of cross, we changed the positioning of a major flat stud like Etreham and triggered a new market. Saint des Saints started modestly at € 4,500 a cover with barely 40 foals in his first crop, and the best of them were sent to Ireland because at that time the Anglo-Saxons had noticed that the few French horses imported there were dom-
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