Sébastien Guarato is currently the incontestable leader of the coaches, accumulating the victories at the highest level, in the young as in the old horses. With Bold Eagle, the flagship of a high-performing team, he is competing for a second consecutive Prix d’Amérique Opodo Final EpiqE Series. And its path is not common.
Originally from the Bordeaux region where he was born in 1972, Sébastien Guarato had no natural connection with the trades of the horse with the sole exception of an occasional turfist father. Unwilling to carry out prolonged studies, he decides to become a driver like that, on a whim. The school of Graignes and then an apprenticeship with Marcel Cherruau give him the basics of a trade for which he seems obviously gifted. The breeder Albert Dauphin then offers him the opportunity to train, and it is at Haras de Ginai, where he binds with Franck Anne, that he gets ready for the fray. Rapidly, the first successes offered to this determined man the possibility to settle, and it finds in Ménil-Bérard, in the Orne, an establishment that it will improve over time until making a center of it Perfectly functional training, built according to his desires with three establishments each dedicated to the different training methods he practices.
Meanwhile, Prince d’Espace, his first semi-classical, made him known, and the successes are linked. Olga du Biwetz, Rapide Lebel, Roxane Griff, Vanishing Point, Vabellino, Aladin d’Ecajeul, Billie de Montfort and Booster Winner offer him many Group I, and Sébastien Guarato climbs the hierarchy each year until reaching the top. But it is Bold Eagle that allows him to reach the Grail of trotters, the Prix d’Amérique Opodo 2016 that his champion wins aged 5 years. However, Sébastien Guarato does not change. The man, jovial and festive, always expressing himself without detours, continues to work as before, improving his work tool according to his needs, so that the series does not break. He knows perfectly well that his profession is difficult and that success can be ephemeral. He remains the coach of the favorite of the next Prix d’Amérique Opodo Final EpiqE Series.
(Source: Turfcom).
