Christophe Lemaire
As a yearling, Le Havre was consigned by the Haras de Coulonces to the Arqana sale at Deauville in August 2007, where he was bought for €100,000 by the French trainer Jean-Claude Rouget acting on behalf of Gerard Augustin-Normand. Augustin-Normand later said that the colt "winked at him from the sales ring" and named him after his home town. During his racing career the colt was trained by Rouget at his stable near Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and was ridden in all but one of his races by Christophe Lemaire.