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Month Race Name Racecourse Dist. (m) Age/Sex 2024 winner March: Prix Exbury: Saint-Cloud: 2,000 4yo+ Haya Zark March / April: Prix Edmond Blanc: Saint-Cloud
The present Prix Corrida was established at Saint-Cloud in 1979, and it originally held Group 3 status. It was contested at Évry in 1994 and 1995, and at Lyon over 2,200 metres from 1996 to 1999. It was promoted to Group 2 level in 2004.
It resumed at Saint-Cloud in 1919. The race was cancelled once during World War II, in 1940. Its original title was discarded in 1941, following the end of the French Third Republic. The newly named Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud was run at Longchamp (1941–42), Maisons-Laffitte (1943, 1945) and Le Tremblay (1944) before returning to Saint-Cloud in ...
The St. Cloud Racecourse in 2006. Hippodrome de Saint-Cloud is a grass race course for Thoroughbred flat horse racing opened in 1901 at 1 rue du Camp Canadien in Saint-Cloud near Paris, France. During World War 1, the race course site housed the No. 4 Canadian Stationary Hospital operated by the Canadian Army Medical Corp.
The Jaune or Yellow course, par-67, was added in 1930 and designed by Colt and his associate John S.F. Morrison. [ 3 ] From April 1983, President François Mitterrand played nine holes with Jacques Attali at Saint-Cloud most Monday mornings.
The event was established at Saint-Cloud in 2001, when it was introduced as part of a restructured program for juveniles in France and replaced the Prix de la Salamandre which was discontinued in 2000. It was given the same title as a race held annually at Longchamp from 1893 to 1910.
The event was originally called the Prix de Saint-Cloud. The first running was staged during the venue's inaugural fixture in 1901. [2] It replaced the Prix de Vincennes, a similar race at Vincennes. [3] It was initially contested over 2,100 metres. [4] The Prix de Saint-Cloud was cut to 2,000 metres in 1904. [5]
The Prix Greffulhe was transferred to Saint-Cloud and shortened to 2,000 metres in 2005. Twenty-three winners of the Prix Greffulhe have achieved victory in the Prix du Jockey Club. The first was Gospodar in 1894, and the most recent was Study of Man in 2018. Two winners, Sea Bird (1965) and Pour Moi (2011), subsequently won The Derby.