Iroise de la Noé like Masina?

No need to search, he’s witness. François Brohier is the oldest driver to have been carried away by the crowd, as Edith Piaf sang, on the occasion of the Prix d’Amérique. It was a year before the signing of the Evian agreements between France and Algeria, a certain January 29, 1961 in the sulky of the one who will remain forever as the mare of her life, Month. Always good eye, Sunday, at 92 spring, François Brohier will be present in the temple of the promised coronation. And there will be a little something (not of tenessee) but Month At the start of this 104^e Edition of the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race thanks to the brilliant winner of the Belgian Prize, Iroise de la Noé. Indeed, the 5^e mother of the resident of Thomas Levesque, Ubianais a uterine sister of Monththeir mother being Belgarde III (Find the anecdote told by François Brohier about it on Paris-turf.com). “When I saw Iroise de la Noé For the first time, it really surprised me because she has the same ball in mind as Monthit reminds me of so many good memories, Exclaims François Brohier. We do not yet know the true value ofIroise de la Noéwho leaves a little slowly as did Month. The latter did not know how to start too much when going up. Given its quality, it did not lose too much ground but it was not its strongest point. Month Dominated so much, she was at the little trot next to the others. It is just if I had the merit of winning, she was the one who won, whether it was harnessed or rising (where she was a little more painful). However, she had a handicap, like many Quinioshe had a foot problem so that she did not adapt to the hard tracks. We won in Enghien and Cagnes but it was not his cup of tea like Vincennes. So much so that Jean Riaud told me one day, and it had surprised me: “Your mare, she is better than Jamin in Vincennes ”.” It was saying! This Vincennes hippodrome – about which he indicates about the possibility of a move: “I let the officials act, but it is certain that it would be a heartbreak to leave the Gravelle plateau” – Nor remind him that good memories.

“A grain of sand can disturb everything”. A year after his coronation, Month had everything to best defend his title, in 1962, before that day of Burgundy prices, the greatest regret in the career of our interlocutor: “The mare had never been as good as 6 years old, before this hiccup intervened. Given his performances, Léon Zitrone giving voice, Month had become popular. She was also very beautiful, it was Brigitte Bardot of the time. She had just won the Prix de Bretagne by returning 50 meters, the Bourbonnais under the same conditions and had become so popular that the stage manager, Mr. Lerenard wanted to set up a special box with lights on the occasion of the Burgundy Prix… At that time, we did not make heats, we worked a little in the morning to deceive them. The mare was flying literally. Now after his work, we consult with Henri Levesque and we thought that Month was so good in Vincennes that it would not go down to Joinville. Grosse error, the mare was thwarted by the lamps and all that, result, she did not urinate and disaster in the descent, she puts herself to the fault when she did not know how to do it. She was so used to going back to the scales that she turned around to try to go there … She then did not want to go into her box, I would have cried, she had to suffer. We almost compromised everything, because the mare had myositis. She gradually recovered, and I managed to win the Cornulier’s price painfully – I was as tired as Month. The price of America arrives when it was the peak of Newstarin large condition. Month Being 70 % of its means, I could not go up. Without this problem, there would not have been a photo … that’s so! Then after the price of Paris, she won the selection prize by returning 50 meters to Else And the good “O”. She would have won everything without this little drawback to the great Critérium de Cagnes ”.

Bio Express
92 years old (born in January 1933)

Married since 1969 in Jane-Marie

2 children, coach Didier Brohier and Anita, who married Jean-Michel Baudouin

5 victories in the price of Cornulier (Month In 1961-62), OL is B (1963), Quovaria (1965) et Uniflor d (1971)

90 approximately groups of groups I or II (IT did not exist at that time)

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One of Henri Levesque’s trusted men

“I came in the job quite lateremembers François Brohier. I had to be 18 or 19 years old, because I had rather left on the side of the horse competition like many members of the Brohier family. I came to the races because Henri Levesque, who was then amateur, called on me; He had decided to take care of horses himself by taking his coach license. We have almost gone from scratch. He had a little mare called Diane de Fontenay (which will become his heart mare), With which we scoured the west a little before heading to the capital. His first four outings in Paris ended in four victories. During the last one, I was beating Dollar v who was going to win the Cornulier award a few weeks later. Then we came across horses like Icare IV, Fuzz or Champagne.”
“We each had our stake at Mr. Levesque, I was watching for example on Monththese are very good memories.“Victim of an accident in January 1980 in qualifying, François Brohier seriously injured the femur when he was 47 years old. “It was an ugly fracture, I resumed the competition, I even returned to a race by beating Michel Lenoir after my accident, but it was no longer the same thing.”François Brohier will put an end to his jockey career and settled in 1986 in Grosbois in 1986 as a coach before passing the witness subsequently to his son Didier. François Brohier invested enormously for the others as president of the union of coaches but also vice-president (then president a short time) of the Hippodrome de Lisieux, vice-president of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives, commissioner In Clairefontaine and since 2007, supported by his wife Jane-Marie, he watches over the association of senior racing.

Masina, where when fate strikes

And Month was the mare of his life, Diane de Fontenay Also counted a lot for François Brohier. “Without the second, the first would never have existed. Let me tell you about the story. In the 1950s, the Italians had many Americans and sought French mares to make crossings. When Diane de Fontenay found himself a little crossed out in competition, Mr. Levesque took the opportunity to sell them. We then went to Albert Veslard’s at the Haras de Ginai’s whose mission was to bring together French mares. Very wise, Mr. Levesque had then spotted two mares called Belgarde III et Balbigny. He calls his bank and we leave with the two mares leaving Diane de Fontenay. Without her, we would not have left with the future mother of Month (Belgarde III)”. The legend was underway …

François Brohier analyzes the price of America 2025

If he sees the mare who will be the little thumb of America, Iroise de la Noé – “Given the way she embraces, she is able to climb without the help of anyone”François Brohier also checked the candidacy of other competitors. “I see of course the two favorites that are Idao de tillard et Go On Boy but also San Engine. I would not be surprised that he settles everyone, because Björn Goop has his bearings in the Prix d’Amérique and I think he has prepared his horse well for this great deadline. That said, we are not immune to a surprise, because now, it is the journey that makes a lot of difference, especially with the three of the wagon, because some competitors find themselves surprised and can no longer go out. I will also note Josh Powerwhich at 6 years old is in great shape, with morale. Hooker Berry Inevitably also, but it will really depend on the route. Be careful Hussard du Landret Also who played misfortunes last year. In the early 1960s, Month broke the records of Jamin and Fandangospeeds that seem ridiculous today. I would never have imagined that one day the trotters are able to walk less than 1’10 ”, now progress is progress. ”