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Tangi Saliou and wife Dorothee of Haras de la Haie Neuvre are looking forward to the auction debut of Seahenge’s yearlings at Arqana in August, writes Aisling Crowe Photos courtesty of Haie Neuve and by Sabine Lösch
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ORMANDIE IS THE FIRST place which springs to mind when thinking of the French thoroughbred breeding industry, but to its southwest the storied peninsula of Brittany reaches out into the Atlantic Ocean, and it is there where you will find one of the busiest stud farms in France – Haras de la Haie Neuve, near to Mondevert, in the countryside east of Rennes. This spring, the stud’s seven stallions covered approximately 500 mares in 2021, eight per cent of all the mares covered in France. It’s an astonishing increase in just three years since the historic farm was taken over by Tangi Saliou and his wife Dorothee, a native of Brittany. Saliou has been managing stallions for two decades and was formerly a director of Haras de Montaigu, prior to that he worked for the French National Stud, but he had a hankering to establish his own business and stud farm. The couple jumped at the opportunity to take over the farm where Verglas began
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his stud career and from where the likes of Hurricane Cat, Pedro The Great and Della Francesca have made their name. The couple has built up a broodmare band of 60, which they use to support their seven stallions, which are split between NH and Flat. “Alain Regnier and his wife Anne Marie have played an enormous role in the success of Haras de la Haie Neuve and we have a lot of interesting genetics and good stallions,” says Tangi Seriou of the septet that stand at Haras de la Haie Neuve. “We have associations with Emmanuel de Seroux of Narvick international who helps us to source Flat stallions and Sebastien Desmontils who we work with on the NH side.” Supporting their own sires is vitally important to the couple with three young stallions embarking on their stud careers. “We have associations with Emmanuel de Seroux of Narvick International, who helps us to source Flat stallions.” One of those Flat stallions is Seahenge, from the penultimate crop of the stallion phenomenon that was Scat Daddy. The Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner and
