Early Days in France
He started his National Hunt career in France. He was initially trained by Guillaume Macaire and owned by Mme Benoit Gabeur. He started his career with 8 runs at Auteuil from 4 October 2006 as a three year old to 27 May 2007. He had 3 wins, a fourth, pulling up once, two falls and possible his best run when he finished runner-up in the 2007 Prix Ferdinand Dufaure. Prior to this run he had shown plenty of class and Clive Smith (owner of Kauto Star) was impressed with what he had seen and had bought him and Ruby Walsh had his first ride on the horse in that race.
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