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GREAT expectations
Haie Neuve’s new owner Tangi Saliou talks about the fresh challenges ahead and the farm’s exciting young stallion,
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angi Saliou is a well known figure at the Deauville sales. For eight years Saliou was director at Haras de Montaigu and during those years he was responsible for the preparation and sale of the yearlings presented by Aliette Forien’s stud. Those August Sale consignments included a Galileo filly, who made €1 million in 2014, the Derby winner Wings Of Eagles, who sold for €220,000 in 2015, as well as the Galileo colt Magneticjim, who is now part of his life every day – at beginning the year, Saliou became the owner and director of the Haras de la Haie Neuve. At Arqana this August he will be standing outside his own boxes rather than those of Montaigu as the Haie Neuve will offer six yearlings in the V2 sale. In front of his own boxes, but not yet his own yearlings. “Alain Régnier and his wife Anne-Marie set up the Haie Neuve about 25 years ago,” explains Saliou. “They wanted to hand on the daily responsibility for the stud although they will continue to invest and be involved. I am
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Pedro The Great
Exciting times for Tangi Saliou, who has moved from Haras de Montaigu to Haie Neuve
now the owner of the stud; I rent the land and have taken a 50 per cent share in the mares and the foals. “Part of the deal was that this year I will sell the Régnier’s yearlings – we have six for the V2 at Arqana in August, 15 for the Osarus Sale in September and 15 for Arqana’s October Sale. We prepare and consign other people’s yearlings as well as the stud’s own and in total the Haie Neuve will offer nearly 50 yearlings this year.” Régnier moved from farming to thoroughbred breeding in the early 1990s setting up the Haie Neuve on the eastern edge of Brittany at Mondervert, which is mid-way between Laval and Rennes and about a three-hour drive south-west of Deauville. The Haie Neuve soon established a reputation for selling sound, tough racehorses; the farm’s own horses are mostly named using Bere, an amalgamation of the names of Régnier and his wife. The recent Group winners bred and sold by the Haie Neuve include Fatale Bere and Flamboyant, both winners of Graded races in California this year, Vizir Bere, as well as many other stakes horses such as Hurricane,
