Prix de Royaumont introduced in 1978, and the race was moved to a date earlier than that of the Prix de Diane. The event was staged at Longchamp from 1987 to 1990, and it was transferred to Saint-Cloud in 1991. Its distance was extended to 2,400 metres in 1992, and it continued to take place at Saint-Cloud until 1996. The race's only subsequent departure from Chantilly was in 2001, when it was run at Saint-Cloud. The Prix de Royaumont is now held on the same day as the Prix du Jockey Club. Prix de Royaumont The Prix de Royaumont is a Group 3
Maryland Jockey Club interruption by the U.S. Civil War. Maryland Governor Oden Bowie and others attended that Saratoga meet and devised the Dinner Party Stakes (now called the Dixie Stakes) for a track in Baltimore. In September 1869, the first Maryland State Fair was held at Pimlico Race Course. The present site of the Maryland Jockey Club was opened at Pimlico on October 25, 1870. A new corporation (Pimlico) was organized on May 14 of that same year in a ballroom of the Barnum's City Hotel in Baltimore. Governor Oden Bowie was elected its first President. The first stakes race held at the