Some riders continue their sporting career until age 60! As for their frame, it’s obviously much shorter. As a general rule, horses retire from sport around the age of 18.
As exceptional as it is, Quel Homme de Hûs is no exception to the rule. Although he is in top form according to Jérôme Guéry, the animal leaves the competition after having once again allowed him to take part in the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.
End of sporting career, but new life as a breeder which awaits Quel Homme. The stallion leaves the stables of Sart-Dames-Avelines for Normandy, in the stud farm of Gaëtan Decroix, friend of Jérôme Guéry and co-owner of the steed, to become a full-time sire. His sperm will be collected there for the insemination of some 300 mares per year, for another 3 to 4 years.
An extraordinary track record
Jérôme Guéry knows that a horse of this caliber only comes along once in a lifetime. Looking nostalgically at his horse, he knows that finding a place in the top 10 in the world will not be easy. Not without a horse as talented as Quel Homme at least. Between 2019 and 2022, the pair won three prestigious titles: European team show jumping champion in 2019 in Rotterdam, team bronze at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 and individual vice-world champion in Herning. in 2022. Injured in 2023, the horse returns to the Paris Olympics in 2024 but there will be no medal the key for the duo. No matter, Jérôme Guéry affirms that the horse’s career had to end at the end of the Games, so as not to risk injuring the aging animal, while the world championships are only looming in two years.
In the meantime, Jérôme Guéry is familiarizing himself with two potential horses as replacements: Romulus and Remus. Two brothers aged 7 who will compete for the saddle of the Belgian rider, not for Rome, but for Aachen in 2026!
