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Prix du Jockey Club

French horse race
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Also known as: French Derby
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Prix du Jockey Club, one of the major French horse races, an event for three-year- old colts and fillies that originated in 1836. It is run over a 2,400-metre (about 1 1/2-mile) course at Chantilly, near Paris, and is sometimes termed the French Derby because of its similarity to the older English race of that name. It is run in June.

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