Yann Barberot’s yard in Deauville has grown in size and stature over the years and he has already recorded 33 winners this season, which doesn’t include his winner in England where he lifted the Betway All-Weather Sprint Championships Conditions Stakes in April with four-year-old Bouttemont.
“I can’t complain,” says the trainer who also enjoyed considerable success as a jockey before hanging up his boots in 2008. “Each year our horses earn more money and I love training, especially since I have so many better horses in the yard.”
Following his successful journey to Newcastle, he took Toimy Son to Royal Ascot to run in the Jersey Stakes, but unfortunately things didn’t turn out the way he had hoped. He is now busy preparing for the Lucien Barrière Summer Meeting at Deauville and is planning another hop across the Channel in September with the filly Sicilian Defense who is pencilled in for a race at Doncaster.
Here, Barberot talks to Liz Price for attheraces.com.