Haras de Meautry, Horse stud farm and historic monument in Touques, France.
Haras de Meautry is a horse stud farm protected as a historic monument in Touques, specializing in thoroughbred breeding. The grounds feature pastures, stables, and training areas designed for raising and developing the horses.
The stud was founded in 1875 by brothers Alphonse de Rothschild (1827–1905) and Gustave de Rothschild (1829–1911) around a 16th–17th-century manor. Alphonse, a horse-racing enthusiast rather than an industrialist, passed it to Édouard de Rothschild (1868–1949), then Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007), and today to Édouard de Rothschild (b. 1957), president of France Galop. The estate grew from twelve hectares of mainly pasture to almost a hundred hectares.
The stud was founded in 1875 by brothers Alphonse and Gustave de Rothschild around a 16th–17th-century manor. Queen Elizabeth II lunched here on 29 May 1967 during a visit to France. The estate has stayed in the Rothschild family, passing from Alphonse to Édouard (1868–1949), then Guy, and now Édouard (b. 1957), president of France Galop.
The stud lies in Touques, about four kilometres from the Deauville racecourses, with the Deauville-La Touques and Deauville-Clairefontaine tracks nearby. The grounds cover close to a hundred hectares, mostly pasture. The manor, its entrance portal and the adjoining buildings are listed monuments, and the working farm is private: the entrance front with its three arched doorways is what can be seen from outside.
Brantôme, foaled in 1931, was unbeaten at two and three and won the 1934 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe plus the French 2000 Guineas, Prix Lupin and Prix Royal-Oak. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation, he was recovered in 1945. The colt Éclair au Chocolat, another Arc winner bred here, was never found.
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