French equestrian magazine Grand Prix posted yesterday that French entrepreneur Xavier Marie has put his prestigious equestrian center Haras de Hus including all its horse stock up for sale.
Insiders, however, told Eurodressage that the property has been for sale for a longer time, but is priced at such an extravagant rate that chances for an actual sale are slim or will go slow.
Grand Prix wrote that Marie, who made his fortune with the furniture and home decor company Maisons du Monde, decided to move away from his dressage and show jumping business and focus on race horses instead.
Xavier Marie arrived in the 2000s on the dressage and show jumping scene as a new, big investor, massively investing in horses at auctions and licensings in Germany. He purchased young dressage stallions Don Juan de Hus and Soliman de Hus, and older stallion Worldly. He also acquired World Champion Poetin as well as her clones. He brought dressage and show jumping horse breeding in France to a new level with his financial injections.
His first international success arrived with jumping rider Kevin Staut on Silvana, who won team gold at the 2010 World Equestrian Games and became a World Number One. Dressage rider Jessica Michel took Riwera de Hus to the 2012 Olympic Games, 2013 European Championship and 2014 World Equestrian Games.
Slowly Marie's attention moved away from dressage and to show jumping, a discipline in which more prestige and money was to be made and quicker success to be achieved. Marie sponsored riders such as Michel Robert and Gregory Wathelet, as well as eventer Nicolas Touzaint. Grand Prix dressage was no longer a goal and the dressage horses were sold faster as rising FEI horses. Five years ago, Marie also opened his doors to traveling clients and the riders based there were allowed to develop their own business on the yard with external clients.
Marie will now consider a sale of Haras de Hus as a whole package: a 120 hectare property with the castle Pont-Hus, the equestrian centre with the breeding barn, reproduction centre, and rearing stables, as well as the sport and breeding horses.
The property is listed for sale with Sotheby’s.
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