The Prix Saint-Alary is a Group 2 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbred fillies . It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 2,000 metres (about 1 1 ⁄ 4 miles), and it is scheduled to take place each year in May.
5-401: The event is named after Evremond de Saint-Alary (1868–1941), a successful racehorse owner and breeder. It was established in 1960, and was originally contested on Longchamp's middle course ( moyenne piste ). It was switched to the main course ( grande piste ) in 1987. The Prix Saint-Alary serves as a trial for the following month's Prix de Diane . Twelve fillies have won both races. The first
10-684: A few years later, his successful progeny made him the leading sire in France in 1902. In 1920, Evremond de Saint-Alary scored the first of his two wins in France's most prestigious race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . Comrade , a colt trained by Peter Gilpin who had cost Saint-Alary only twenty-five guineas , won the inaugural running of the Arc and also won the Grand Prix de Paris . Saint-Alary raced in England as well in
15-568: A well known family from the French West Indies, Saint-Alary became involved in horse racing as a young man in his twenties, and in the early 1890s acquired Haras de Saint Pair du Mont , a horse breeding farm at Le Cadran near Cambremer in Calvados , Normandy . A passionate man, Evremond de Saint-Alary once challenged a member of the press to a duel after he had written an article criticizing one of his horses. In 1893 Saint-Alary purchased
20-521: A yearling at the Ventes de Deauville auction, which he named Omnium . One of the best horses he would ever own, under jockey / trainer Edgar Rolfe , Omnium won seventeen races in three years of competition including numerous important events such as the 1895 Prix du Jockey Club , the French equivalent of England's Epsom Derby . Omnium was retired to stud duty at Haras de Saint Pair du Mont and despite dying only
25-525: Was La Sega in 1962, and the most recent was Laurens in 2018. In 2024 the race was downgraded to Group Two status by the European Pattern Committee. Leading jockey (9 wins): Leading trainer (8 wins): Leading owner (8 wins): Evremond de Saint-Alary Count Evremond de Saint-Alary (1868–1941) was a leading owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in France . Heir of
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