Group 1 race | |
Location | Chantilly Racecourse Chantilly, France |
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Inaugurated | 1836 |
Race type | Flat / Thoroughbred |
Sponsor | Qatar |
Website | france-galop.com |
Race information | |
Distance | 2,100 metres (1m 2½f)[1] |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | Three-year-olds excluding geldings[1] |
Weight | 58 kg Allowances 1½ kg for fillies[1] |
Purse | €1,500,000 (2023) 1st: €857,100[1] |
2024 | ||
Look De Vega | First Look | Sosie |
Previous years | ||
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2023 | ||
Ace Impact | Big Rock | Marhaba Ya Sanafi |
2022 | ||
Vadeni | El Bodegon | Modern Games |
2021 | ||
St Mark's Basilica | Sealiway | Millebosc |
The Prix du Jockey Club, sometimes referred to as the French Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Chantilly over a distance of 2,100 metres (about 1 mile and 2½ furlongs) each year in early June.