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Prix de l'Opéra

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Inaugurated
  
1974

Website
  
france-galop.com

Track
  
Right-handed

Sponsor
  
Race type
  
Flat / Thoroughbred

Surface
  
Turf

Distance
  
2,000 m

Location
  
Longchamp Racecourse Paris, France

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The Prix de l'Opéra is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 2,000 metres (about 1¼ miles), and it is scheduled to take place each year in early October.

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History

The event was established in 1974, and it was initially classed at Group 2 level. It was originally restricted to three and four-year-old fillies and contested over 1,850 metres.

The race was opened to older mares in 1990. It was extended to 2,000 metres and promoted to Group 1 status in 2000.

The Prix de l'Opéra was added to the Breeders' Cup Challenge series in 2011. The winner now earns an automatic invitation to compete in the same year's Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

The race is currently held on the first Sunday in October, the same day as the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Records

Most successful horse (2 wins):

  • Athyka – 1988, 1989

    • Leading jockey (3 wins):

  • Yves Saint-Martin – Sea Sands (1975), Waya (1977), Kilmona (1981)
  • Walter Swinburn – Royal Heroine (1983), Bella Colora (1985), Hatoof (1992)
  • Cash Asmussen – Secret Form (1986), Colour Chart (1990), Insight (1998)
  • Christophe Soumillon - Terre a Terre (2001), Mandesha (2006), Dalkala (2013)

    • Leading trainer (5 wins):

  • Criquette Head-Maarek – Reine Mathilde (1984), Mona Stella (1987), Athyka (1988, 1989), Hatoof (1992)

    • Leading owner (4 wins):

  • HH Aga Khan IV – Timarida (1995), Shalanaya (2009), Ridasiyna (2012), Dalkala (2013)

    • Winners

    a Erin Bird finished first in 1994, but she was relegated to fifth place following a stewards' inquiry.
    b The 2016 running took place at Chantilly while Longchamp was closed for redevelopment.

    References

    Prix de l'Opéra Wikipedia
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