Prix Bertrand du Breuil Prix de Diane. In 2013 the race was renamed in memory of Bertrand du Breuil (1926-2011), the last president of the Societe d'Encouragemment, forerunner of France Galop. Prix Bertrand du Breuil The Prix Bertrand du Breuil is a Group 3 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at Chantilly over a distance of 1,600 metres (about 1 mile), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June. The earliest version of the event was established at Chantilly in 1852. Its prize money was originally provided by the Chemin de
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