Montmartre

Montmartre (foaled 18 March 2005) is a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a brief racing career which lasted from April to July 2008 he won three times from five starts. After finishing second on his debut he won a minor race before running unplaced in the Prix du Jockey Club. He then won the Prix du Lys and went on to record his biggest success with an impressive victory in the Grand Prix de Paris but never recovered from the race and was retired from the track. As a breeding stallion he had some success as a sire of National Hunt horses. Background Montmartre is a grey horse bred in France by Lagardere Elevage, a company which managed the bloodstock of the late Jean-Luc Lagardère. During his racing career he was owned by Aga Khan IV and trained by Alain de Royer-Dupré. He was ridden in all of his races by Christophe Soumillon. He was from the third crop of foals sired by Montjeu whose wins included the Prix du Jockey Club, Irish Derby, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. As a breeding stallion his other progeny included Motivator, Authorized, Pour Moi, Camelot, Scorpion, Masked Marvel, Hurricane Fly, St Nicholas Abbey and Hurricane Run. Montmartre's dam Artistique, from whom he inherited his grey colour, was a good staying filly who won the Prix Berteux in 1999. Artistique was a daughter of Armarama who won the Ribblesdale Stakes and was a half-sister to Kalaglow. Racing career