Arnaud and Leigh Delacour at Fair Hill Training Center

Since opening their stable in 2007, Arnaud and Leigh Delacour have developed dozens of stakes winners, including talented GI winner Magic Attitude (GB) {Galileo (Ire)}. We take a ride with some of their top prospects at Fair Hill Training Center.

It takes a special kind of relationship for a couple to successfully run a business together, but anyone that's trying should take notes from the Delacours. In just over a decade, they've taken hundreds of trips to the winner's circle and made several Grade I headlines. But if anyone asks, they will say they owe much of their success to a Frenchman and an Englishman who took the time to develop them into the horsemen they have become.

Arnaud grew up on a farm in Normandy and quickly realized his dream of one day becoming a successful trainer. He started out at Chantilly, becoming the assistant trainer to Alain de Royer Dupré. After testing the waters in France, England and Argentina, he eventually ended up in the States with fellow Frenchman Christophe Clement.