France’s leading gold medalist since 2014, goldsmith Ménil-Bérard, mentor of the crack Bold Eagle, will try to put his name on the list of the Grand Prix d’Amérique for the third year in a row. Portrait.
Sébastien Guarato was born in 1972, the year of the “G”. “G” as the first letter of his name, illustrating the logo of his racing team but also his stud farm in La Meslerie, located east of Orne, near L’Aigle. The Eagle, here again a place predestined for the one who is the double-holder of the title in the Grand Prix d’Amérique, thanks to his boarder … Bold Eagle seeking, this year, a third consecutive coronation in the flagship race of the world trot. Bold Eagle, the trotting eagle, high-flying raptor holder on January 9, 2018, more than 3.5 million euros in earnings, for 37 wins in 46 outings, the most beautiful list for a horse just aged 7 years old, with already sixteen Group I to his credit.
Race Collector at the highest level
He has been coaching for 22 years. 22 years is the time between two generations of French Trotters, knowing that each year of birth corresponds to a specific letter. In 22 years, Sébastien Guarato has won 18 of … 22 major events in the French trot calendar, the famous Group I. Rather than list all these successes, as many as the four races still missing on his list: the Prix de Vincennes, the Prix Albert Viel, the Prix du Président de la République and the Critérium de Vitesse de la Côte d’Azur. This means that the coach has already made his mark in the early 2000s, thanks to his talent as a developer discovered in his early years of installation and revealed even more in broad daylight, when he created his own Norman training center and gained the trust of more and more owners.
Keeping grounded
Sébastien Guarato has achieved a perfect synthesis of the best of what he has learned alongside his only master of learning (Marcel Cherruau), his own experiences known very young (he started his own business at 23) and his innate sense of trotting. Having the talent to train, an “art” that can not be explained and also passes through the knowledge to harness and shoe, the original Bordeaux immediately burst the screen, as the number and the quality of the horses entrusted increased. Ten years after his debut, he is already in the top 10 of coaches, his students exceeding for the first time the million euros in earnings, in 2006. In 2014, he is crowned head of the list of his profession, by the gains . Since then, the first place on the podium has been reserved for him and over the last ten years, his residents have won more than 50 million euros! At the age of 45, Sebastien Guarato does not take his mind off his head: “I only train racehorses and I am not like a surgeon with the right to life or death over his patients. In short, Sebastien Guarato does the job he loves, with success and talent, to the delight of the turfists and its owners.
