ENGLISH TEXTS
Loïc Stecher Chocron A rider from a young age, Loïc quickly turned his passion into a career as a journalist for the media France Sire for several years. He spent a long time traveling across various regions of France to meet and get to know those who breed the champions of tomorrow, all while covering major races abroad.
Marie-Hélène Blanchet From rider to communication manager, via jumping breeding, photography( with several exhibitions presented in different venues across France) and video, Marie-Hélène is a true“ Swiss army knife” of equestrian sports. Passionate about horses from a very young age, she has developed solid expertise in her field of choice while broadening her skills to include the performing arts( organization, communication, image, etc.). More recently, she has also been working as an agent in equestrian real estate. She now competes at amateur level as well as with young horses, above all for pleasure, and owns two sport broodmares.
Mathilde Hulot Between investigations, reports and portraits, Mathilde loves cross-disciplinary topics that combine her two passions: horses and wine. A journalist and recognized author in the wine world( En Magnum by Bettane + Desseauve, La Vigne), she travels across the globe from vineyard to vine- yard, from Croatia to Chile, from Mexico to Italy, passing through the regions of France she has been savoring all her life. She is the wife of a winemaker in Hungary, in the Tokaj wine region, where she recharges her batteries alongside her three Shagya Arabians, whom she rides between the vineyard rows.
Paul Casabianca His passion for horse racing was born from a single purchase: a filly named Ambassadrice. His father bought her, and together they experienced everything: the beginnings, the adrenaline of racing and the joy of victory in Vichy in the spring of 1993. That’ s where it all started! After touring every racecourse in the PACA region with him, he decided to turn his passion into a profession. With a journalism degree in hand, he has been living his passion for over twenty years now … and has no intention of stopping!
Pierre Champion He is the historian of GALORAMA. Pierre Champion, who for a long time carefully strung together words for Paris- Turf, recounting in particular the pedigrees of the greatest champions. The history of horse racing holds no secrets for him, and he has in his bag many great anecdotes. His writing, at times refined yet always delicate, passionately tells the finest adventures of the turf.
Serge Okey Introduced to racing at a young age, the Quinté represents the big Sunday event for him. He experienced the days of Tiercé betting slips, stakes in francs, considers Omar Sharif first and foremost a racing actor, saw Jos Verbeeck in a sulky, and supported Yves Saint-Martin while listening to Léon Zitrone’ s commentary. For this music fan, racing is the most beautiful symphony between the animal and man.
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FLAT ZULU KINGDOM: A GR. 1 FOR ELISABETH FABRE AS A BREEDER
BY LOÏC STECHER CHOCRON
Although he was born in Ireland, Zulu Kingdom’ s victory in the Maker’ s Mark Mile at Keeneland last April carries a distinctly French flavour. His breeder is none other than Elisabeth Fabre, under the entity Écurie Peregrine.
Zulu Kingdom dominated the 2025 edition of the Maker’ s Mark Mile( Gr. 1) in the United States by a wide margin, notably defeating the most recent winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile( Gr. 1), Notable Speech. He delivered another Group 1 victory to Elisabeth Fabre,
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