Maintenon (foaled 1903 in France) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred by Gaston Dreyfus at his Haras du Perray in Les Bréviaires Yvelines. Maintenon was out of the mare Marcia and sired by Le Sagittaire a multiple winner of what today are Group One races.Purchased as a yearling for twenty-three thousand French francs by American sportsman William Kissam Vanderbilt of the prominent Vanderbilt family of New York Maintenon was conditioned for racing by future U.S.
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