Prix du Jockey Club Prix du Jockey Club The Prix du Jockey Club, sometimes referred to as the French Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Chantilly over a distance of 2,100 metres (about 1 mile and 2½ furlongs) each year in early June. The format of the race was inspired by the English Derby, and it was named in homage to the Jockey Club based at Newmarket in England. It was established in 1836, and it was originally restricted to horses born and bred in France. Its distance was
Maryland Jockey Club of the meet was the fourth running of the Preakness Stakes which was won by Shirley. In 1877, the United States Congress, both the House of Representatives and the Senate adjourned on October 24 so that members of both houses could witness a race of intersectional scope in which Parole, Ten Broeck and Tom Ochiltree met. They finished in that order in what was to become known as "the Big Race" in a stakes program of ten stakes races. Today racing in Maryland is at risk, threatened by declining revenues and pressure from developers. Maryland Jockey Club The Maryland Jockey