• Source: Vieux-Manoir

      • Vieux-Manoir (French pronunciation: [vjø manwaʁ]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.


      Geography


      A village of farming and associated light industry situated in the Pays de Bray, some 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Rouen near the junction of the D206 with the D122 road. The A28 autoroute forms the western border of the commune. Longuerue-Vieux-Manoir station has rail connections to Rouen and Amiens.


      Population




      Places of interest


      The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century.


      See also


      Communes of the Seine-Maritime department


      References

    • Source: Vieux Manoir

      • Vieux Manoir (1947–1981) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and Champion sire.


      Background


      Bred by Baron Edouard A. de Rothschild and raced by his son Guy following his death in 1949. Members of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France, they owned Haras de Meautry breeding farm in Touques, Calvados where Vieux Manoir was foaled. Vieux Manoir was trained by Frenchman, Geoffroy Watson, a member of the renowned English Racing Colony in Chantilly.


      Racing career


      Vieux Manoir most notably won the 1950 French Classic, the Grand Prix de Paris, and was second in the British Classic, the St. Leger Stakes.


      Stud record


      Retired to stud, Vieux Manoir was the leading sire in France in 1958. His best-known progeny was Val de Loir, whose wins included the Classic Prix du Jockey Club in 1962 and who became a three-time leading sire in France as well as a Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland. Another son, Le Haar, sired Exbury and Niksar and was the leading sire in France in 1963. Through Vieux Manoir's daughter, Agujita, he is the damsire of the international superstar filly and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, All Along. And, through another daughter, Astuce, he is the damsire of the 1976 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, Ivanjica.
      Vieux Manoir died at age thirty-four in 1981.


      References


      Vieux Manoir profile at Gatewood Farms

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