Grand Prix de Paris

kfallon

Anyone know what time this takes place on Saturday? It's usually in the evening, is this still the case?

Last time it was run on a Saturday that shitebox Pasquier knocked me off Eagle Mountain, the bollix :mad:

Only 7 in the field at the mo. Imperial Monarch is 6/4 with Main Sequence 5/2 (Paddy Powers)

Slattsy

6.50 our time i believe bud.

ATR showing it i imagine.

Racecaller

Trends preview for past 10 runnings below (http://tinyurl.com/cewa3n3), though worth noting trip for this race was changed from 1M 2½F to 1M 4F in 2005:

Age
Race for 3yos

Breeding
10 of 10 winners sired by a group 1 or 2 winner
10 or 10 winners were by a sire with a stamina index of 8.8+

Recent/Past Form
9 of 10 winners had had 3 to 6 career starts (exception had run 8 times)
9 of 10 winners had run 3 or 4 times that season (exception had run once, winning group 1 Prix Jean Prat)
9 of 10 winners (last 9) achieved career highest RPR last time out
10 of 10 winners posted an RPR of 106+ last time out
9 of 10 winners finished in first 4 in a listed or group race last time (exception was 9th in Prix du Jockey Club)
10 of 10 winners had run in past 55 days
10 of 10 winners had won over 1M 1F+ (only 3 were distance winners)
Since trip was upped to 1M 4F, 3 of 7 winners had over 1M 4F
5 of 10 winners did not run as 2yos (2 of other 5 won a group race as a 2yo)
Since the trip was changed to 1M 4F no winner had previously won above group 3
7 of 10 winners had won at Longchamp (2 exceptions were having first course start & other was beaten a half length on only previous run here)

Other Races
Highest placed finisher from Prix du Jockey Club (Saint Baudolino): 17512623 (2-2-8)
Highest placed finisher from Epsom Derby (Main Sequence): 27U4234 (0-3-7)
Prix Juigne winner (Last Train): 13 (1-1-2)
Prix De Nanterre winner (Saint Baudolino): 1 (1-0-1)
Prix De Guiche winner (Saint Baudolino): 1 (1-0-1)
Prix Hocquart winner (Top Trip): 185 (1-0-3)
Prix Noailles winner (Hard Dream): 2 (0-1-1)
Prix RMC winner (Nutello): 3 (0-1-1)
Lingfield Derby Trial winner (Main Sequence): 62 (0-1-2)
Prix 156Eme Derby Du Midi winner (Lidari): 455 (0-0-3)
5 of 10 winners ran in the Prix du Jockey Club, finishing 90404
2 of 10 winners ran in Prix du Lys last time, finishing 11
2 of 10 winners ran in Prix Jean Prat last time, finishing 11
2 of 10 winners ran in Prix Des Chenes as a 2yo, finishing 11

Trainers
French-trained horses: 9-8-52
Irish-trained horses: 1-3-17 (all Aidan O’Brien)
British-trained horses: 0-3-12
German-trained horses: 0-1-2
Andre Fabre (3-3-14) won this race 7 times in 1990’s & has also trained 3 of the last 6 winners.
Aidan O’Brien (1-3-17) is the only foreign trainer to win the race since 2002. However he has only won the race once from 17 runners (over 20% of the total runners), and many of his representatives were towards the top of the market.
Jean-Claude Rouget (1-0-5) trained Bekhabad to win in 2010. .

Racing Style
Since this race has been run over 1M 4F, 7 of 7 winners raced in mid-division or behind leaders

Price
9 of 10 winners were sent off 5/1 or shorter
Meandre’s win at 10/1 last season was first winner over 5/1 this century.
Favourites have won 6 of the last 10 renewals, showing a level stakes profit of 4.42.

Summary:
Based on the trends from the past 10 years you are looking for a horse:
• By a group 1 or 2 winning sire with stamina index of 8.8+
• Had 3 to 6 career starts (running 3 or 4 times in 2012)
• Finished in first 4 last time, posting an RPR of 106+
• Ran in past 55 days
• Course winner (or having first run at Longchamp)
• Won over 1M 1F+
• Won a group 3 or listed race
• Group 1 win or place form not essential
• Unplaced in the Prix du Jockey Club
• Won the Prix du Lys, Jean Prat and/or Prix Des Chenes
• Trained in France (ideally by Andre Fabre)
• Priced 5/1 or lower (favourites do well)

moany

Imperial Monarch made all of the running under Joseph O'Brien to win the Group One Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp.

The Ballydoyle colt had endured a nightmare passage at Chantilly in the French Derby last time so his jockey had him in the best possible position from the start.
He was strongly challenged in the closing stages by Last Train but the winner gamely stuck to his guns to take the prize in a photograph.
Saint Baudolino was third while Epsom Derby runner-up Main Sequence had his path blocked up the inner on a number of occasions and had to settle for an unfortunate fourth under Ted Durcan.

Harry Angstrom

No mention of it on the 9.30 News and sport on RTE 1 :rolleyes:

convert

Probably because the race was run after 6pm! :rolleyes:

tryfix

A really gutsy performance, it takes a good attitude for a horse to keep repelling all challengers like he did. There's a video of the race on the link below.

http://www.equidia.fr/Courses-hippiques/News-hippiques/Plat/Grand-Prix-de-Paris-Imperial-Monarch-marche-sur-Longchamp

Nulty

Really nice performance by horse and jockey. Its not often that I take a shine to an O'Brien horse but I like this one.

the groutch

not often I say it, but fair play to JP, he had the balls to try make all and it just about paid off.
the one for the notebook is Main Sequence, left with nowhere to go in the last furlong, and could see him putting it up to Camelot in the Leger.

lester76

Well done young joe that was a cracking ride and what a battler underneth him