the racehorse’s working day with the trainer Charles Gourdain at the Domaine de Sers

The residents of Charles Gourdain are racehorses: Arabian thoroughbreds, English thoroughbreds, Anglo-Arabs. His job is coaching. He has lived and worked at the Domaine de Sers training center in Pau for more than 20 years.

The stables of Charles Gourdain in the early morning © Radio France
®Anna Luciani

Racehorses train for an hour every day

The racehorses Charles Gourdain looks after are true sports athletes. He is about sixty. Every day they go out for an hour to improve their performance. As part of a training adapted to each according to his level and his state of form. His horses are also engaged in horse racing. Races that take place every weekend. Every day, Charles Gourdain chooses to enter this or that horse in 15-day races all over France depending on the horse’s condition. There are also time limits for forfeiting races if the horse has a problem. This is why attending all training to follow his students is important to Charles Gourdain.


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