Chantilly

Alessandro Sabato, National Rally MP for Oise, which covers Chantilly, Beauvais, Compiègne, in the north of France, north of Paris.

And he joins us by phone on the programme.

Great to talk to you tonight, Alessandro.

His horses won the American Grand National with Relaf in 1914, Arclight 1929, Bushranger 1936.

When New York racing was interrupted in 1911 and 1912, he expanded to France and established a farm near Chantilly.

His American breeding operation took permanent form after 1923, when he and his nephew, George Dutton Widener Jr., acquired portions of Elmendorf Farm near Lexington, Kentucky.

From the dispersal of August Belmont II's stock, Whitener bought 64 broodmares, 36 weanlings, and three stallions.

Linwood could accommodate household riding, training, and sports.

probably steeplechase horses.

The breeding grounds near Chantilly served his European enterprise, and Allmendorf became the center for the stallions, broodmares, and young stock of his American breeding program.

The deaths of Widener's brother George and nephew Harry aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912 left him the family's sole surviving son and eventual chief steward.