The final agreement must be balanced for allThe governmental duty are therefore numerousThere may even be on the Board of DirectorsA partition of any beautyAll this is irrelevantIn the spirit of recruiters it is a testI have no regrets and was again the referaiThe choice of Lucent is not a coincidenceProcter Gamble has caught up with PfizerIn cross financing operations everything is subject to discussionHe must get off at the 97eplace to find the second ValeoThis is a first. Under end armoury XVIIIedu stud farm of pine panelled ceiling, the whinnying of horses will leave Saturday instead to the voice of the Diva Opera troupe, who will perform "La Bohème". Despite the excellent acoustics of this improvised, not sure Opera House as the work of Puccini's reach to cover the wrath of the employees of the national stud farm, determined to fight "their announced death", as stated by the CGT. Threatened, the stud farm of pine Changing, in any case, reflected in the representation of tomorrow. This cultural event organized at the initiative of the General Council of the Orne, unveils a new facet of this jewel equestrian, anxious to diversify its activities.
Intended by Louis XIV to ensure abundance and quality of its Warrior mounts, the "Versailles of the horse" has indeed started to leave the fold of the State. Under the aegis of the Norman Department, a new life began for him last July. Umpteenth - highly symbolic - episode of the reform of the national stud farm. In 2006, already, the number of "deposits of standards of the Kingdom" had reduced from 23 to 19. And this is not finished: the horse poles of Blois and Compiègne are for sale. Other closures will follow. Because this superb and loaded history real estate heritage is also, often, a financial precipice and attracted few buyers.
Next fusion
"The House reform, or it dies", admits with realism Jean Lesne, President of the institution since 2000. This reform of the national stud farm, this passionate man, who is also breeder, trainer and driver of walkers, j. essential to move the establishment Tercentenary in the 21st century, find new missions and ensure its 1,000 employees work. Qualified staff which benefits the entire equestrian sector. Following a specific training for the education of the young horse to pine are sought and pole equipment-resources, sheltered by the stud farm, is now all the job opportunities of the sector.
In the spring, a new step has been crossed: the grouping of the stud farm, to January 1, 2010, with the Ecole National Equitation (ENE), the black frame of Saumur, to create a single public institution guarantee for the horse industry and horseback riding, was endorsed. The relevance of this decision is contested by the unions, but welcomed by the Director of the ENE, Robert of Artois: "for the school, this approximation is a plus." We can be of best horses through the activity of calibration of the stud farm, who can also offer our formations such as Saumur.
Optimism that all do not share. Despite the 14.4 million euros invested in the purchase of standards from 2004 to 2008, the calibration activity, the base of the profession of the national stud farm, is more or less doomed. In addition, the number of sites will continue to shrink as shrinking. Eventually, only five to ten of them could survive. This will depend on the will of regional communities to resume support. With respect to the 110 stations monte, these annexes, where in the season to perform projections (approximately 20,000 per year), they should be reduced by half. "These stations are the memories of a bygone era, when mares movement was on foot." "Some may be closed and other occasions by associations of breeders," relativizes Bernard the Courtois, President of the Trade Union Association of private étalonniers (Asep), which found that this reform of the national stud farm was slow to materialize. It is not the only one.
This summer, to the surprise in the equestrian world, Nicole White, which had been loaded, in March, to explore a new strategy for the stud farm, in was named General Manager. It is thus invited to implement his suggestions. "An appointment for the less precipitous, commented a connoisseur of the record." François Roche-Bruyn, his predecessor had done, but he was not pushing surely not quite quickly this reform by the Elysee. "Perhaps Nicole White has an ear to the ideas of the prefect Jean-François Etienne de Rosaies,"Mr. horse"the Elysee Palace, determined to pass the higher speed.
Preserve endangered breeds
General engineer of rural engineering, water and forests, Nicole White was, in his pocket, a letter of engagement providing for the creation of a group of public interest (task force IPTF) to concentrate all trade missions of the stud farm (projections, chilled semen transport network) in partnership with the private breeders. Already, hundreds of standards are operated in pairs: "we manage the sporting career of the horse, the stud farm load of standard life," explains Christian Baillet, Vice-President of the French equine society and first to sign this type of partnership. The staffing of the stud to the IPTF would consist of 200 standards, technical centres and paid operating staff. "A detachment which can only be done with the agreement of concerned officers", said the CGT.
The new facility, born of the merger with the ENE, manage other functions including training, but also the calibration of the races in the process of disappearance. Indeed, many in the industry today consider that the traditional calibration of the stud farm and initial mission has lived. "They make us of unfair competition", to carry Bernard the courteous, furious at the idea that "people of the stud farm travel in the world at the expense of the Princess, to sell the semen of their standards".Asep had also brought the record to Brussels to force the stud farms to raise the prices of their projections. "One must concede that, for this activity, they are no longer in the coup", acknowledges Jean Lesne, which stresses the need to preserve a minimal role for races like the anglo-arabes or the horses in the national stud farm. "There is a real resurgence of demand for the percheron, the Norman cob or the breton line." We welcome many foreign delegations. "Even the King of the Morocco is for horses", confirmed Franck Le Mestre, Director of the Haras du Pin.
A speculative sector
However, national stud farm no longer have the means to acquire the prestigious top horses to stay in the race to the birth of cracks. This purely speculative sector is totally dominated by the private stud farms. This is true for horse racing and more to those for sport or leisure. In 1980, the national stud farm owned 95 of the active standards of saddle-horses from French. Today, the report is completely reversed for the benefit of the private sector. "This is not the role of the State to maintain standards", insists Bernard the courteous, which elevates French saddle horses for competition. A point of view that Nicole White seems to share recently noting in a working meeting that the State had not bulls.
Problem: the calibration activity is an indispensable source of revenue for the stud farm. For a long time they lived comfortably by collecting 0.7 of the revenues of the PMU. Those days are gone. The Jospin Government has been late and, now, the stud live a grant from the State (EUR 40 million in 2008), plus revenues (24.6 million in 2008), tours (400,000 people received last year), projections, of the Sire (equidae information system), which lists all equidae living in France, or transport of semen.
The exploits of Workaholic
The monte remains the primary source of income. For the single Norman establishment, turnover is of the order of 400,000 euros annually for 700 projections. Are those the Thoroughbred who reported more than 1,000 and 2,500 euros monte, but they are rare, because performance standards. "I remember the time when there were 80 standards in the stables of pine." "The Workaholic only brought every year from 4 to 5 million francs to the stud farm", evokes nostalgia Emmanuel Leclerc, former student of the school of the stud farm, at the head of French trotters Madrik, Exmes farming, in the Orne. This horse, purchased 11 million francs in 1989, is now retired to pine, after having honoured 1.471 pouliches until 2003.
"Since about 15 d’années, private s’est substituted for the public." But is it the role of l’Etat d’être player in a market where private dictates his act said Jacques Chartier, Director of the French horse, the association which governs the world of casual footwear. Formerly, the national stud farm contributed to forge the character of a race. Now, there are ways and blood currents are very Americanized. "In addition, when a new crack emerges, it is under such speculation that it becomes a real financial product, a business which, in the opinion of all, the national stud farm have not place.
