Prix du Petit Couvert
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The Prix du Petit Couvert is a Group 3
Conditions races
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 flat
Flat racing
Flat racing is a form of Thoroughbred horse racing which is run over a level track at a predetermined distance. It differs from steeplechase racing which is run over hurdles...

 horse race
Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

 in France
France
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 which is open to thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
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s aged three years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 1,000 metres (about 5 furlongs), and it is scheduled to take place each year in September.

History

The event was established in 1867, and during the early part of its history it was usually held at Chantilly
Chantilly Racecourse
Chantilly Racecourse is a Thoroughbred turf racecourse for flat racing in Chantilly, Oise, France, about north of the centre of the city of Paris....

. Its title refers to the Petit Couvert, a crossroads in the forest adjacent to that racecourse. It was originally open to horses aged two or older, and it was initially contested over 800 metres. It was abandoned during the Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and...

 (and for two years thereafter), with no running from 1870 to 1873. Its distance was increased to 1,000 metres in 1881. Apart from two editions at Longchamp (1880 and 1900), the race remained at Chantilly until 1906.

The Prix du Petit Couvert was transferred to Longchamp in 1907, and at the same time its distance was extended to 1,100 metres. It was abandoned throughout World War I
World War I
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, from 1914 to 1918, and its length was reverted to 1,000 metres in 1921. The race was cancelled twice during World War II
World War II
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, in 1939 and 1940. It was temporarily switched to Maisons-Laffitte
Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse
The Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte at 1 avenue de la Pelouse in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte in France is a turf horse racing facility and track for Thoroughbred flat racing...

 in 1943 and to Le Tremblay
Tremblay park
Tremblay Park is a park located in the commune of Champigny-sur-Marne, in the department of Val-de-Marne in the region Île-de-France. This green space with an area of 73 hectares offering games and sporting activities. Originally, this was a horse race track called Hippodrome du Tremblay...

 in 1944.

The Prix du Petit Couvert was formerly held in late October. The race was moved to September in 2002, and simultaneously it was closed to two-year-olds. It now serves as a trial for the following month's Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp
Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp
The Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp is a Group 1 flat horse race in France which is open to thoroughbreds aged two years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 1,000 metres , and it is scheduled to take place each year in early October.-History:The Prix de l'Abbaye was one of two major...

.

Records


Leading jockey
Jockey
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 (7 wins):
  • Roger Poincelet – Fine Art (1944, 1945, 1946), Damnos (1948), Palariva (1956), L'Epinay (1960, 1962)
  • Yves Saint-Martin
    Yves Saint-Martin
    Yves Saint-Martin is a retired champion jockey in French Thoroughbred horse racing. He is widely considered one of the greatest riders in French racing history....

     – La Sega (1961), Texanita (1963), Silver Shark (1965), Sun Sun (1968), Manjam (1979), Park Romeo (1981), Bold Apparel (1983)

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Leading trainer
Horse trainer
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 (9 wins):
  • François Mathet – Reinata (1955), Edellic (1958, 1959), La Sega (1961), Texanita (1963, 1964), Silver Shark (1965), Sun Sun (1968), Moubariz (1974)

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Leading owner (7 wins):
  • Edmond Blanc – La Negligente (1889), Fantasia (1891), Manitou (1897), Mauvezin (1899), Caius (1902), Fils du Vent (1909), Porte Maillot (1911)


Winners since 1980

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
1980 Greenway 2 Freddy Head
Freddy Head
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Alec Head
Alec Head
Alec Head was a prominent French horseman and breeder and the owner of Haras du Quesnay near Deauville. A descendant of the great trainers who founded the English Racing Colony in Chantilly, Oise, Head's grandfather was a jockey-turned-trainer, as was his father William Head who was a very...

Jacques Wertheimer
Jacques Wertheimer
Jacques Guy Wertheimer was a prominent French businessman who inherited and ran the renowned House of Chanel perfume company...

1981 Park Romeo 5 Yves Saint-Martin
Yves Saint-Martin
Yves Saint-Martin is a retired champion jockey in French Thoroughbred horse racing. He is widely considered one of the greatest riders in French racing history....

Herbert Cohn Leonie McNitt
1982 Kind Music 3 Freddy Head
Freddy Head
Freddy Head is a retired champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing and currently a horse trainer. Known also as "Freddie", his grandfather was a jockey as was his father Alec Head who also became a successful trainer and owner of Haras du Quesnay near Deauville...

Robert Collet
Robert Collet
Robert Collet is a French thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Robert Collet was one of the first European trainers to win a Breeders' Cup race when he won the 1986 edition of the Breeders' Cup Mile at Hollywood Park Racetrack with Last Tycoon...

Bendar bin M. Al Kabir
1983 Bold Apparel 3 Yves Saint-Martin
Yves Saint-Martin
Yves Saint-Martin is a retired champion jockey in French Thoroughbred horse racing. He is widely considered one of the greatest riders in French racing history....

Robert Collet
Robert Collet
Robert Collet is a French thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Robert Collet was one of the first European trainers to win a Breeders' Cup race when he won the 1986 edition of the Breeders' Cup Mile at Hollywood Park Racetrack with Last Tycoon...

Owen Helman
1984 Parioli 3 Maurice Philipperon
Maurice Philipperon
Maurice Philipperon is a noted French jockey who after retirement became president of the French jockeys' association.His winning rides in Gr. 1 and 2 races included:* the Prix Ganay in 1970, 1971 and 1980 on Grandier, Caro and Arctic Tern....

John Cunnington, Jr. Danny Arnold
1985 Miss Stanford 4 Tony Ives B. Olsson Elizabeth Thurdin
1986 Parioli 5 Maurice Philipperon
Maurice Philipperon
Maurice Philipperon is a noted French jockey who after retirement became president of the French jockeys' association.His winning rides in Gr. 1 and 2 races included:* the Prix Ganay in 1970, 1971 and 1980 on Grandier, Caro and Arctic Tern....

John Cunnington, Jr. Danny Arnold
1987 Sizzling Melody 3 Richard Hills Lord John Fitzgerald
Lord John FitzGerald
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Mary Watt
1988 Canango 4 Guy Guignard Alain Falourd Etti Plesch
Etti Plesch
Etti Plesch, , Austro-Hungarian countess, huntress, racehorse owner and socialite. Plesch lost two of her six husbands to the same woman, Louise de Vilmorin, a French literary figure, and owned two winners of the Epsom Derby, in Psidium in 1961 and Henbit in1980.Born Maria Anna Paula Ferdinandine...

0:59.6
1989 Lugana Beach 3 Steve Cauthen
Steve Cauthen
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David Elsworth
David Elsworth
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Ray Richards 0:56.4
1990 Run and Gun 2 Cash Asmussen
Cash Asmussen
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Robert Collet
Robert Collet
Robert Collet is a French thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Robert Collet was one of the first European trainers to win a Breeders' Cup race when he won the 1986 edition of the Breeders' Cup Mile at Hollywood Park Racetrack with Last Tycoon...

Ecurie Promethee 1:02.4
1991 Ski Chief 3 Thierry Jarnet
Thierry Jarnet
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André Fabre
André Fabre
André Fabre is a French thoroughbred horse racing trainer.The son of a diplomat, Fabre graduated from university with a law degree but then decided to pursue a career in thoroughbred horse racing. He began by working in the stables as a groom then as a schooling rider...

Zenya Yoshida 0:59.9
1992 Wixon 2 Freddy Head
Freddy Head
Freddy Head is a retired champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing and currently a horse trainer. Known also as "Freddie", his grandfather was a jockey as was his father Alec Head who also became a successful trainer and owner of Haras du Quesnay near Deauville...

François Boutin
François Boutin
François Boutin was a French Thoroughbred horse trainer. The son of a farmer, he was born in the village of Beaunay in the northerly Seine Maritime département. He began riding horses at a young age and competed in show jumping and cross-country equestrianism...

Allen E. Paulson
Allen E. Paulson
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1:00.9
1993 Lavinia Fontana 4 Frankie Dettori
Frankie Dettori
Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori, MBE is an Italian horse racing jockey and celebrity. Dettori has been Champion Jockey on three occasions and has ridden the winners of more than 500 Group races.. He has had many successes in his role of stable jockey to Godolphin Racing...

Con Collins Cyril Humphris 1:01.5
1994 Millyant 4 Cash Asmussen
Cash Asmussen
Cash Asmussen is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born Brian Keith Asmussen, in 1977 he legally changed his name to "Cash". From a Texas horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, operate a ranch in Laredo, Texas...

Rae Guest C. J. Mills 0:59.8
1995 Millyant 5 Cash Asmussen
Cash Asmussen
Cash Asmussen is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born Brian Keith Asmussen, in 1977 he legally changed his name to "Cash". From a Texas horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, operate a ranch in Laredo, Texas...

Rae Guest C. J. Mills 0:56.9
1996 Don't Worry Me 4 Alain Junk Guy Henrot Jean-François Gribomont 0:57.4
1997 Hever Golf Rose
Hever Golf Rose
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6 Cash Asmussen
Cash Asmussen
Cash Asmussen is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born Brian Keith Asmussen, in 1977 he legally changed his name to "Cash". From a Texas horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, operate a ranch in Laredo, Texas...

Joe Naughton Hever Racing Club 0:59.3
1998 Bishops Court 4 Jimmy Fortune
Jimmy Fortune (jockey)
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Lynda Ramsden David Brotherton 1:03.4
1999 Manzor 2 Olivier Peslier
Olivier Peslier
Olivier Peslier is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Peslier competes in flat racing mainly in France but travels often around the world for the big international races....

Xavier Nakkachdji Daniel Wildenstein
Daniel Wildenstein
Daniel Leopold Wildenstein was a French art dealer and scholar, as well as a leading thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder....

1:00.6
2000 Repertory 7 Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes (jockey)
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Malcolm Saunders Malcolm Saunders 0:59.4
2001 Repertory 8 Fergus Sweeney Malcolm Saunders Malcolm Saunders 1:00.9
2002 Ziria 3 Dominique Boeuf
Dominique Boeuf
Dominique Boeuf is a jockey in Thoroughbred flat racing. He began his career while still a teen and won his first race on 15 September 1984. Three years later, he got his first Group One win aboard Groom Dancer in the 1987 Prix Lupin...

Carlos Laffon-Parias Leonidas Marinopoulos 0:56.6
2003 Repertory 10 Tom McLaughlin Malcolm Saunders Malcolm Saunders 0:56.9
2004 Pivotal Point 4 Frankie Dettori
Frankie Dettori
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Peter Makin Ray Bernard 0:56.5
2005 Nipping 3 Christophe Soumillon
Christophe Soumillon
Christophe Soumillon is a Belgian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.-Career:Raised in a horse racing family, he is the son of a horse jumping jockey Jean-Marc Soumillon. Christophe Soumillon apprenticed at Chantilly Racecourse in Chantilly, France to Cédric Boutin, and won his first race in...

Robert Collet
Robert Collet
Robert Collet is a French thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Robert Collet was one of the first European trainers to win a Breeders' Cup race when he won the 1986 edition of the Breeders' Cup Mile at Hollywood Park Racetrack with Last Tycoon...

Richard C. Strauss 0:55.5
2006 Majestic Missile 5 Christophe Soumillon
Christophe Soumillon
Christophe Soumillon is a Belgian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.-Career:Raised in a horse racing family, he is the son of a horse jumping jockey Jean-Marc Soumillon. Christophe Soumillon apprenticed at Chantilly Racecourse in Chantilly, France to Cédric Boutin, and won his first race in...

William Haggas Flying Tiger Partnership 0:56.0
2007 Tax Free 5 Adrian Nicholls David Nicholls Ian Hewitson 0:55.8
2008 Only Answer 4 Olivier Peslier
Olivier Peslier
Olivier Peslier is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Peslier competes in flat racing mainly in France but travels often around the world for the big international races....

André Fabre
André Fabre
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Wertheimer et Frère
Wertheimer et Frère
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0:56.3
2009 War Artist 6 Olivier Peslier
Olivier Peslier
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James Eustace Rupert Plersch 0:56.5
2010 Swiss Diva 4 Ioritz Mendizabal David Elsworth
David Elsworth
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Lordship Stud 0:57.5

Earlier winners

* The 1912 race was a dead-heat and has joint winners.
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