Pierre-Jean Sabathier, 54, is a French horse breeder from Pessan (Gers) He has bred around a hundred thoroughbreds and around fifty trotters. “I deeply love horses thanks to my dad.

I had a great moment when Kelthomas won the President of the Republic Prize in 2016,” he says. ‘The Briton really knows racing, you could say it’s in his genes. In France, it is a more closed environment than in England’