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Yann Barberot loves training in Deauville and the ex-jockey is having a fine time of things at present. He won the All-Weather Sprint Championship in April with Bouttemont, had runners in this year’s French Classics, and Sicilian Defense won a Listed race at the start of the Deauville summer season
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ANN BARBEROT is a trainer whose time has come. Some 15 years after the ex-jockey launched his new career as a trainer in Deauville, the stable is clearly on the verge of joining the elite group of French-based trainers who compete regularly in the country’s best races. In 2021, Barberot’s stable enjoyed its best season to date with 60 wins in France, and this year it succeeded in winning its first race in England when Bouttemont took the All Weather Sprint Championship at Newcastle in April. He has also been competing in the French fillies’ Classic races with Daisy Maisy and Sicilian Defense. “My first plan was to go to Newcastle with a different horse,” says Barberot about his British All-Weather win, “but then when the time came I realised that Bouttemont was the horse at the peak of his form and ready to go. “It was a great day, it is very difficult to
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Trainer Yann Barberot (far right) with Bouttemont after victory at Newcastle in the All Weather Sprint Championship
