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
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