The Nick Luck Daily podcast turned to Normandy for this week’s Weatherbys bloodstock segment.
When Nick Luck last checked in with goings-on at Haras de Beaumont, it was via the stud’s director Mathieu Alex.
This time, three years later, he spoke to Pauline Chehboub, daughter of the operation’s founder Kamel Chehboub.
Beaumont, as Luck correctly summarised, is both a stud in a “beautiful part of the world” and an organisation that has “come a long way”.
Chehboub, speaking with breeding season in full swing, said she was “very happy” with the stud’s foals and stallions, adding that the stud was looking forward to having “some nice two-year-olds” hit the track in due course.
“We’re very happy with Ace Impact,” she explained. “He has matched up to our ambitions when it comes to standing a champion at Beaumont. He was a multiple Cartier award winner, crowned both Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Colt and Cartier Horse of the Year in 2023.”
Chehboub said she’d been please with Ace Impact’s first two books of mares, calling them “exceptional”.
“I’d like to take the opportunity to thank breeders who’ve supported him,” she continued.
Luck noted that Ace Impact, who stands for €30,000 in 2026, covered 152 mares in his second season, which Chehboub confirmed was a “pretty big book” from a French perspective.
“He deserves that,” Chehboub made clear, “because he made a deep impression on racing and has enthusiasts all over the world.”
Chehboub also discussed Beaumont’s Sealiway, who stands for €10,000 in the year his first two-year-olds take to racecourses.
She explained that Sealiway was, in fact, the reason Beaumont began and he was therefore “very important” for the operation, having been “very precocious” and “highly talented” as a racehorse, something demonstrated when he won (like Siyouni and Wootton Bassett before him), the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère at two.
“He was pretty generous and impressive,” said Chehboub, who went on to clarify the story of Beaumont’s beginnings.
Mathieu Alex, she said, loved Sealiway, and he and the Chehboub family went in search of somewhere to stand him. They settled on Beaumont (previously operating as the Head family’s Haras du Quesnay) for its “tactical location”, lying just ten or so kilometres from Deauville.
Intello, who was formerly under the Quesnay banner, is nowadays a Beaumont resident, standing for €7,000 in 2026.
“He’s well supported by Wertheimer & Frère,” said Chehboub. “They always send very good mares to him. He’s a big boy and has sired more than 50 black type horses, so it’s very important to stand him in France.”
Chehboub described the stud’s Puchkine, who stands for €8,500 and has his crop of foals hitting the ground, as “a very good-looking son of Starspangledbanner”, adding that the stud has “three nice foals” by him with “good size and great qualities”.
He is, she added, also well-supported by Gérard Augustin-Normand and Alain Jathière.
Asked whether she could’ve envisaged Beaumont bourgeoning as it has, Chehboub said it was a dream to work with her father.
“Everything makes sense at the moment,” she concluded. “I’m lucky to walk and live in my passion.”
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