The Blanc family, who used to own a horse farm, came to take care of bulls by and thanks to horses. Fascinated from father to son by working on horseback among bulls, Jean-Claude Blanc (photo) and his children first approached the adjoining Lebret manade (herd), the development of which they helped from the mid-1970s. They took over their animals in 1998 to prevent them from going to the slaughterhouse for lack of Lebret descendants. After twenty years of volunteer help, Jean-Claude Banc and his family knew everything about this herd of cows and stallions, mainly of Mailhan and Pastré origins.