Prix du Jockey Club The first was Ksar in 1921, and the most recent was Dalakhani in 2003. Leading jockey (9 wins): Leading trainer (10 wins): Leading owner (12 wins): The 1843 and 1856 races finished as dead-heats, but each was decided by a run-off.<br> The 1882, 1886 and 1908 races were dead-heats and have joint winners. 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
Jockey-Club de Paris in rue Scribe, which ends at the façade of the Opéra Garnier. On the wall is a memorial plaque on the Hotel Scribe, at number 1, which records the former premises of the Jockey Club, which occupied luxurious quarters on the first floor from 1863 to 1913. During the Second Empire and the Third Republic, the gentlemen of the Jockey Club held numerous boxes at the Opera ("many little suspended salons" in Marcel Proust's phrase), where the required ballet expected in every opera was never in the first act, when the Jockey Club would habitually still be at dinner. One