Prix du Petit Couvert serves as a trial for the following month's Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp. Most successful horse (3 wins): Leading jockey (7 wins): Leading trainer (9 wins): Leading owner (7 wins): Prix du Petit Couvert The Prix du Petit Couvert is a Group 3 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds 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. The event was originally held at Chantilly, and it is named after a crossroads in Chantilly Forest. It was
Prix Daru Viscount Paul Daru, who served as president of the Société d'Encouragement, in 1877. The Prix Daru was one of several trials for the Prix du Jockey Club collectively known as the Poules des Produits. The others (listed by their modern titles) were the Prix Lupin, the Prix Hocquart, the Prix Noailles and the Prix Greffulhe. From 1885, the Prix Daru was restricted to horses whose dams were born outside France. The event was funded by entries submitted before a horse's birth, in the year of its conception. The race merged with the Prix Noailles during the 1940s. The combined event,