Cheriearch Sweet For Capucines Partners

Cheriearch Sweet For Capucines Partners… 
Like Alerite and Xcellence, Cheriearch (Arch) (lot 94) is another talented French-based filly to have gone the way of Chad Brown after winning a stakes race in France, but unlike the latter pair luck was not on her side in America. Cheriearch was injured before she made it to the races in the U.S., prompting her retirement. She was bred to Exchange Rate before returning to France, and that resulting foal preceded her through the ring, fetching 120,000gns from Alain Jathiere. Cheriearch and her foal were consigned by Haras des Capucines, and Capucines partner Michel Zerolo signed the ticket on Cheriearch–who is in foal to Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)–at 260,000gns to buy out his partners in the mare. 

“She was a very good filly,” Zerolo noted. “We sent her to the U.S. but she got a knee fracture, so she didn’t run there. Her foal was nice and we’re very happy to get her.” 

Zerolo and his partners put Cheriearch through the ring carrying her Exchange Rate colt at last year’s Tattersalls December Mare Sale, but brought her home when she failed to hit her reserve at 190,000gns. 

In little more than five years, Alain Jathiere–who was buying out his partners when signing for Cheriearch’s Exchange Rate colt (lot 93)–has put together a fast-expanding breeding and racing venture, which now sees him maintain around 20 horses in training, split between the yards of Jean-Claud Rouget, Jean-Paul Gallorini and Pia Brandt. In 2013, with only nine individual runners, he tasted victory at group level courtesy of Silas Marner (Fr) (Muhtathir {GB}) and Peace Burg (Fr) (Sageburg {Ire}), who was subsequently sold for 700,000gns to continue her career at Ballydoyle. The Venezuelan-based art dealer was introduced to racing by Michel Zerolo, and owns several of his stock in partnership with the latter. 

“We were three partners in this filly and I was keen to keep her,” he said. “She will now go back to Haras des Capucines until she is ready to go into training with Jean-Claude Rouget.”