Three Cheers to the Breeder! Guillaume Vitse Breeds a Breeders' Cup winner in Unquestionable

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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.

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