What happens at Auteuil this Autumn
Photo scoopdyga.com
The Autumn meeting at Auteuil is basically the same than the Spring. It begins tomorrow Tuesday with an eight races-card and 92 a healthy 92 runners. In total, 18 race days are scheduled until the closing day, on Novembre 29. That is 139 courses including 24 Group races, and more specifically five Group1s. Four of them are competed in the "48h de l’Obstacle" weekend, on November 2nd and 3rd (bookings here).
Every generation and both specialities have their own championships:
- 3yo Hurdlers :
- September 17: Prix Chambly (Gr3, Fillies over 3,600m).
- September 23: Prix Robert Lejeune (Gr3, Colts & Geldings over 3,600m).
- October 9: Haras d’Etreham – Prix Magne (Gr3, Fillies over 3,600m).
- October 13: Prix Georges de Talhouët-Roy (Gr2, over 3,600m).
- November 2: Haras d’Etreham – Prix La Bournosienne (Gr2, Fillies over 3,600m).
- November 3: Prix Cambacérès (Gr1, over 3,600m).
- 3yo Chasers:
- November 2: Prix Congress (Gr2, over 3,500m).
- 4yo Hurdlers:
- September 28: Prix de Maisons-Laffitte (Gr3, over 3,600m).
- October 19: Prix Pierre de Lassus (Gr3, over 3,900m).
- November 10: Prix Renaud du Vivier (Gr1, over 4,100m).
- November 24: Prix André Michel (Gr3, 4+ Fillies & Mares over 3,600m).
- 4yo Chasers :
- September 17: Prix The Fellow – Marquise de Moratalla (Gr3, over 4,400m).
- October 13: Prix Orcada (Gr3, over 4,400m).
- November 2: Prix Maurice Gillois (Gr1, over 4,400m).
- November 10: Prix Sytaj (Gr3, 4&5yo Fillies and Mares over 4,300m).
- November 24: Prix Morgex (Gr3, over 4,400m).
- 5+ Hurdlers:
- September 23: Prix de Compiègne (Gr3, over 3,900m).
- October 13: Prix Carmarthen (Gr3, over 3,900m).
- November 2: Grand Prix d’Automne (Gr1, over 4,800m).
- November 24: Prix Olry-Roederer (Gr2, over 4,300m).
- 5+ Chasers:
- October 13: Prix Héros XII (Gr3, over 4,400m).
- October 19: Prix Montgomery (Gr3 Handicap, over 4,700m).
- November 3: Prix La Haye Jousselin (Gr1, over 5,500m).
- November 24: Prix Georges Courtois (Gr2, over 4,400m).