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HISTORY ...
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Born in Nantes, in the west of
France, Franck has always been interested in
animals. As a child, he spent a great part of his
holidays in Brittany with his grandmother who has
made him discover horses when he was five years old.
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Later on, living on the Basque
coast in Anglet opposite to a horse club, he spent
all his free time there riding and taking care of
the horses.
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Franck entered to the college,
but he was thinking more and more of horses. In 1984
he has been received to the entrance examination of
the National school of the studfarms, at the
National stud of the Pin, in Normandy.
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Franck has been studying in
this school where all that relates to horses is
taught for three years.
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In July 1987, after an
experience in the field of race training as well as in
the field of CCE and CSO (an activity that he will
carry on with the Arabians), he was approaching the
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His director
suggested him to get into the Sport Center of Military
Riding, so that he could stay in his domain.
His military
service finished, his former riding teacher proposed
him for some months a first work experience at the
stud “Les Cruchettes” in Normandy. After that, he
continued his work at a close breeding farm. |
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In summer, when he finished his
work there, Franck came back home to the Pyrenees
Atlantiques.
From there he joined Mr. and Mrs.
Valerio’s stud. It was the first time that he was in
contact with Arabian horses, and it has been a real
revelation.
From now on, his wishes and desires became more and
more precise.
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Franck continued to work at
the national and international level of the Arabian
horseworld. He aspires the trainer position at Mr.
and Mrs. Calvets studfarm “Shamilah Arabians” in
l’Yonne, and it was there where he got his
professional apprenticeship from.
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Franck spent one month in the
United States at the Midwest-Trainingcenter and
after that he left to Germany to work with Niko Jung
at the Karolinenhof-stud, where they created a
trainingcenter for arabian horses in 1998. After a
whole showseason with some very good results,
including not less than 20 classwinners and fifteen
champions and reservechampions, they finished the
year with several Top Five and Top Ten places at the
worldchampionships in Paris.
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When Karolinenhof
couldn’t sustain the trainingcenter anymore, Franck
left, after having been contacted by Mr. Ferdinand
Huemer, to the studfarm of La Movida Arabians in
Austria.
A new beginning and
new horses allowed Franck to achieve new goals.
From 1999 until
2004 he added to his list of wins several national and
international champion titels at different continents. |
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But, like at the other studfarms
he had worked at before, a special horse crossed his
way and, after Shamilah Samsara an LM Fellini, it’s
Reza el Bri who allows him to reach the top.
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Reza made her first steps into
the showring during the year 2001, but the two had
to wait until 2003 until they reached their hour of
glory. They became
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After that success Franck felt
that he had accomplished his goals in Austria, and
although he really appreciated La Movida Arabians
and the family of Mr. Huemer, he finally took the
difficult decision to return to France.
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This new step gives to
Franck the possibility to find back the shows on
the French environnement, his friends, back to the
sources , but now stronger because of his
international experience.
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2005
will see new changements in his life, with, we
hope, a lot of successes...
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