Claude Joachim Lefèvre
Claude Joachim Lefèvre (Paris 1826-Paris 1896) was a prominent French racehorse owner whose French racing operations were based at Chamant, L'Oise, where he built a model stud, and after 1870 also at Dangu in Normandy. In 1873 he set a record as a racehorse owner by winning 110 races in a season. Career He was a member of an ancient family seated at Chamant, near Senlis, L'Oise, and at the start of the 1850s entered on a brilliant career in business and in Horse breeding in France, horse-breeding. At about this time a portrait was painted of him galloping on a horse, by Alfred de Dreux. He made a fortune in South America in the 1860s and on his return to France purchased a 600 hectare estate at Chamant, L'Oise, where he built the ''Haras du Chamant'' a famous model stud which became a reference for French horse-breeding. In 1870 he leased the Dangu, Eure, Haras de Dangu stud in Normandy from the politician Comte Frédéric Lagrange (politician), Frédéric Lagrange (1815-1883), wh ...
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