The Verrie site and its 160 hectares include one of the 233 French racecourses and a wooded area subject to a forest regime of 119 hectares.
Inaugurated on June 17, 1877, the Verrie racecourse was purchased in 1900 by the State. The surface area of the site was then doubled, the racecourse and its unique obstacle course saw mainly military races run. Following the creation of the National Riding School - now IFCE -, the site was assigned to it and the land transferred from the Ministry of the Armed Forces to the State Secretariat for Youth and Sports (1973). The racecourse was renovated in 1977.
A true green lung of Saumur, the Verrie site is a natural place open every day to the individual and collective practice of outdoor sports and which invites you to go for a family walk. Classified as a Sensitive Natural Area, it is also identified within two Natural Areas of Ecological, Faunistic and Floristic Interest.
