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  • 3/20/2025
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00:00Just five short years after starting his own business, Normandy Breeding, Guillaume Vits
00:15found himself the breeder of Unquestionable, a Breeders' Cup World Champion.
00:20How did he go from small start-up to world champion in just five short years?
00:24He tells us the story.
00:26There's a quarter of a mile left to go in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, trying to
00:29get off the inside, Unquestionable.
00:30He's loose for the drive now as they fan across the course.
00:31The leader is my boy Prince, Unquestionable.
00:32Set down driving by Ryan Moore.
00:33Down the center, here comes Mountain Bear.
00:34The Euros closing good ground with Unquestionable in front.
00:3516th to go, they can't get him.
00:36Unquestionable wins by two in the end.
00:37Unquestionable, that's another story.
00:38We don't have no money, so I called the bank and said, can you forward me some money so
00:55we can buy a good mare at the sale?
00:58OK.
00:59So with a good wallet of money, you know, because Nicolas Chamberlain told me, if you
01:03want a good mare, if you want to make good horses, buy a good mare, you know, spend some
01:06money.
01:07So we got a very good mare, Cedar Star mare, pretty small, not too big.
01:11I don't want too big mares anyway.
01:13And so we got there, followed by, get good filly out of Knight of Thunder.
01:19And so we wanted to go to the best.
01:21The best in France was Witton Basset, still have no money.
01:25I called Nicolas Chamberlain, can you do a full share with us?
01:29So we looked at the mare and said, well, it's going to be a bit cheap, you know.
01:32I'm not sure.
01:33I don't think so.
01:34So, OK, let's take this.
01:36We buy it.
01:37We take it.
01:38We go anyway.
01:39And by the time, mare full of Knight of Thunder, still no money, because we spend all the money
01:45into the horses and stuff like this.
01:47So we thought, I'm not a banker, you know.
01:50And I called Nicolas, I said, Nicolas, look, I'm not going to be able to pay that Witton
01:55Basset cover.
01:56Come and have a look at the filly we have by Knight of Thunder and try to see your point
02:01if we can do a full share.
02:02So he come along and said, OK, don't deal.
02:04Good filly.
02:05We do a full share, no problem.
02:06When we raced at the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère at Deauville, I went on to see Hayden O'Brien,
02:14which is such a nice man to talk to, you know.
02:16I said, well, sorry to disturb you, but I'm in question about this breeder.
02:21And I just wonder, do I need to take my plane ticket to Santa Anita?
02:26He said, yes.
02:27I said to my wife, make sure you take some days off, because we're heading down to Santa
02:33Anita.
02:34You know, it's like if I was riding a horse, you know.
02:36I was holding on to a ramp, you know.
02:38I think I moved all the...
02:42I don't think I...
02:43I didn't break it, you know.
02:44But I was crazy like...
02:45It was amazing for us, you know.
02:47We was very good friends of us and partners, you know.
02:50Tanguy and Minou Amoureux, you know, Mandala Racing, they were with us all the way.
02:55And I don't know how to describe that feeling, you know.
02:58It's the best you can get.
03:01Breeders' Cup, to my point of view, it's a dream when I was a kid, you know.
03:05We used to go all the time, look at the races at Argentin or at Clairefontaine, back in
03:111988, 87, 89.
03:14I remember these days like, now we have a runner, unbelievable, and a winner.
03:19We believe that.