Claude Beniada

The Great Racing Read: Claude Beniada

Monsieur X By Jamie Reid Subtitled 'An incredible story of the most audacious gambler in history', this book was offered to me by Teddy Grimthorpe, Juddmonte's racing manager, and from page one to the end it is fascinating. It features the rise and fall of Patrice des Moutis, a supremely intelligent engineer and fierce gambler who was supposed to be the brain behind the famous race-fixing coup of the Prix Bride Abattue at Auteuil racecourse. It is quite surprising that no French writer has ever written this story in detail....

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Letters to the Editor: Claude Beniada

CLAUDE BENIADA Apogee is a name that has been used in the past by the Juddmonte operation of Prince Khalid Abdullah. Apogee (GB) (Shirley Heights {GB}) was a Group 3-winning filly in France in the care of André Fabre. At the heart of a top Juddmonte family, she is the dam of multiple group winner Dance Routine (GB) (Sadler's Wells) and the granddam of champions Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) among others. I wish the same future to the Apogee (Malibu Moon) of Christophe Clement. (Click...

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