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
Grand Prix du Comminges different route. The hilly terrain allowed for excellent viewing close to the beginning and end of the race from atop a hill at the outskirts of Saint-Gaudens. In 1926, the French Grand Prix was held here over a slightly altered course and in the 1930s, the course layout was modified a few times beginning with changes made to accommodate holding the official French Grand Prix in 1928. At the 1932 race, a stroke of luck saved several spectators from death. René Dreyfus was leading in his Bugatti going into the final lap. Rain fell and on the wet road he