“I left at a point in my career when I needed to gain experience. I had to improve my riding.”
– Clément Lecœuvre
“At the age of 10, I already knew I wanted to become
a professional jockey.”
– Augustin Madamet
“The day after Woodshauna’s victory, I woke up the same way. Basically, I put on my boots and went to feed my horses.”
– Patrick Lemarié
“A jockey shouted at me in French, I didn’t understand a word. But I was too happy for it to bother me.”
– Nathan Howie
“I arrived from Paris and we started off with two hours on a tractor — and I was in a suit!”
– Frédéric Sauque
“Their horses were faster, they were stronger. We had to bring them in. But we couldn’t do it just any way.”
– Jean-Pierre Dubois
“When you wake up an hour earlier than everyone else, you work three or four more horses than the others — and maybe one of them is
a star.”
– Jean-Pierre Dubois
“But horses were a stroke
of luck for me. Honestly, I never considered it work.”
– Jean-Pierre Dubois
“My grandfather is so gifted in genetics that he managed to buy here and there, and turn horses into super horses.”
– Louis Baudron
“He’s different from the others — he’s faster, and he sees further ahead.”
– Maurizio Grosso
“There will only ever be one Jean-Pierre Dubois!”
– Jacques Pauc
“He’s formidable, a real joker, extremely diplomatic, and impossibly charming.”
– Alain Pagès
“Jean-Pierre Dubois is a man with his feet on the ground. He’s not after what looks good, but what actually works.”
– Alain de Royer-Dupré