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Facilities

Our yard is peaceful and quiet with bright, airy boxes bordering open lawns. We also have a walker and turn out pen for horses on easy work. Apartments for the lads above the stables and Nicolas house at top of the yard provide a constant watchful eye over all of our horses. We also have our own horsebox to transport our horses easily to and from meetings with minimum stress to them and greatly reducing the risk of spreading diseases between horses.

Our horses collect in the yard and then leave in one group and are ridden through a purpose built tunnel to go under the main road to find themselves in a peaceful horse's paradise.

Chantilly

"Why have I been taken to Versailles seven times and never here?"  President of United States of America, Richard Nixon, during his official visit to Chantilly in 1968.

Situated only forty kilometres from Paris, Chantilly is indisputably the capital of the horse. The town is well known as the location of the largest training centre for racehorses, its superb château, the Live Horse Museum and Europe’s largest polo club. The training centre here is the largest in the world with a hundred and twenty kilometres of bridleways, a hundred and twenty hectares of turf and twelve kilometres of jumping tracks. It’s estimated that there are around 2,600 thoroughbreds in training here, with around 99 trainers employing over 800 staff.

Chantilly is also ideally located only half an hour away from Charles De Gaulle Airport, less than an hour from Beauvais Airport or if arriving on the Eurostar only a half hour train journey from Paris. This makes it very easy for foreign owners to come and see their horses, which we always encourage them to do. Being so well situated also means that our horses have less than an hour to travel to the major Parisian racetracks. Travelling anywhere on the continent is made easy by first class motorways, as is sending horses to the UK. Over the past few years we have had runners in places such as Italy, England, Spain, Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

The first thing that any visitor Chantilly remarks on is the tranquil setting of the training facilities and the total calm that surrounds the training ground.

Corridors of sand gallops are bordered by magnificent beech trees. As the horses warm up in the collecting rings you can hear a pin drop. Here in Chantilly there is no dodging traffic trying to cross busy roads as in other training centres. This is a place where horses rule and man comes in second place. The only vehicle that can be heard is the carefully driven tractor that rakes the gallops every 10 minutes to keep them constantly in top condition.

The next striking things are the miles of all weather and grass gallops. The surface is very different from the wood bark or artificial surfaces that you find in other training centres, this is pure sand and earth. The perfect surface for training and more importantly keeping horses sound, only about 10 cm deep so that horses don’t have to slog through it.

As you walk from gallop to gallop the all weather gives way to miles of beautifully prepared grass. Breaking through the trees onto these grass gallops your breath is taken away by the beauty and vastness of these facilities. All of which add up to make Chantilly one, if not the best, place to train a racehorse in Europe.