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00:00The Chabut family was undeniably proud of their European champion, Siliway, and when
00:07it came time for the four-year-old to retire this year, they did what any owner would love
00:11to do.
00:12They built Siliway his own stud farm.
00:15Siliway is obviously a very important horse for this new operation and this farm.
00:20He's a dual group one winner.
00:22He was a champion two-year-old.
00:23He won the champion stakes.
00:25He's a very popular horse in France.
00:29Very hard to find a French horse winning the champion stakes in Ascot, so there's a lot
00:33of fans behind him and now breeders are coming to see him and they like him.
00:39Just different class horse since the beginning, since my father found him at Arcana because
00:47he was just special and we had a lot of sentiment for this horse, the history, since the beginning
00:55finally.
00:56We're proud of that.
00:59Siliway has got quite an extraordinary racing career because he had the speed to win over
01:04six.
01:05He won the champion stakes over 10.
01:07He was second only to Saint-Marc Basilica in the French Derby, which is a great race
01:10for a stallion making race.
01:12He was a top, top two-year-old.
01:14He was champion two-year-old in France.
01:16He won the Prix Jean-Luc Laguerre by eight lengths, which hasn't been done in 45 years.
01:20He had the speed, precocity, but could well run up to 10 furlongs.
01:26Siliway was bred by Guy Payant at a herd called Ville, he's by Galiway, and his dam
01:30is by Ken D'Argent.
01:31They've been two extraordinary stallions and there is a lot of precocity in his pedigree.
01:37That's one of the targets with him, is try to target that two-year-old market as well.
01:42We are quite confident that he will get two-year-olds, yes.
01:46We actually have 20 males, so we'll be for him this year.
01:51We booked three males at Gauss this year, especially for him.
01:59This farm is basically bought for him.
02:02Mr. Cheboub and his family have this champion and obviously very exciting stallion, we hope.
02:10So we are located here, 10 kilometers away from Deauville, just across the very famous
02:16farm Arradieu-Quesnay.
02:18When Mr. Cheboub and I met and had a long chat about Siliway, obviously, very early
02:24he expressed his wish to have a lovely farm.
02:28So we looked around, we couldn't have expected for such a beautiful farm.
02:32It's part of Arradieu-Quesnay, which has been extremely successful.
02:37And we are very proud, very, very proud to be now here.
02:42It's going to be very difficult to do as well as the head family, but we'll try hard for
02:46sure.
02:47To offer a host like Siliway in France, who won the champion stage in the UK, who was
02:55the best two years old.
02:57We are very happy to have established this new project with him in France, and I think
03:05he has a place to be the next superstar maybe.