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2026 French Group 1 sheet is now LIVE!
🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇪🇯🇵🇩🇪 runner breakdown
📆Overall & Individual Race Calendar (ft dec stage dates)
🔢Avg Field Sizes & Winners by country
🌿Official FG Going (Each dec stage)
⏱️ 2026 Winning Time (+8 year historic times)
➡️ bit.ly/FRG12026
A really gutsy performance from Avec Toi 🇫🇷 to run so hard for so long.
Huge improvement from #QPAT weekend for the @CHeadRacing @HeadRacing1 yard for the @coolmorestud partnership.
Another peach of a ride from Ryan Moore! 🤩
Haffner runs out a ready winner of the Brown Advisory @BreedersCup Juvenile Turf! 🏆🇺🇸
#BC26
Dumbfounded on the ride of Amusingly 🇫🇷.
You can’t give an inch to the first string Coolmore most of the time let alone 10+ lengths.
Talent in the horse is undoubtedly there for 2027.
🏆 Sun Goddess impériale dans la Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (Gr.1) ! La pouliche décroche un troisième groupe 1 de suite.
Aidan O'Brien marque encore plus les esprits avec un 2⃣6⃣e groupe 1 en 2026 et une 2⃣2⃣e Breeders.
🇫🇷 Amusingly (@GraffardRacing) est quatrième.
And so ends the 🇫🇷 Group 1 racing season!
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11x 🇫🇷 Group 1 wins (-4 v '25 & '24, -5 v '23)
9x 🇬🇧 Group 1 wins (+5 v '25)
9x @GraffardRacing Group 1 wins
8x 🇮🇪 Group 1 wins
6x @Ballydoyle G1 wins
+5.8% Non French Trained Runners
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A lot to think about for 🇫🇷 trainers for 2027!
Saint Cloud Forfeit 1 (25/10):
G1 Criterium Intl: 14
G1 Criterium Saint Cloud: 10
G1 Royal Oak: 10
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Disgraceful participation from 🇫🇷 with just 3 horses entered across the 24 runners in the 2yo races
14x 🇮🇪 Ballydoyle entries
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Full List > bit.ly/FRG126
.@Ascot Champions Day always delivers at least one big price!
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2026: Mount Atlas @ 33s
2025: Powerful Glory @ 200s 📸
2025: Ciceros Gift @ 100s
2024: Anmaat @ 40s
2022: Bayside Boy @ 33
2013: Royal Champion @ 20s
Seven time Group winner Aventure 🇫🇷 has been retired by the Wertheimers today to their Haras de Saint-Léonard farm.
She had been aimed at the @BreedersCup but that is now no longer the case.
A wonderful mare for Ferland.
This is an extraordinarily devastating death for French National Hunt racing.
An incredible Champion with 15 wins from 27 races.
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@francegalop
Ande Humphrey retweeted
L’Arc a-t-il réellement des problèmes?
❓ Le nombre de partants est-il insuffisant?
❓ La qualité des partants est-elle en cause?
❓La notoriété de l’arc baisse-t- elle?
Sices deux critères ne posent pas de problème majeur, quelle est donc la justification d’une telle réforme
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It started in Paris.
It rightfully ended in Paris.
Thank you Champion.
Thank you @AgaKhanStuds.
Thank you @GraffardRacing.
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📸: Liesl King
Christophe Soumillon will return to the legendary green and red on @Qatar_Racing Champions Day aboard CALANDAGAN 🇫🇷 at Ascot according to @SadHilllll in France.
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His last high profile ride in the famous casaque was Vadeni in the #QPAT behind Alpinista.
The best horse wins.
We wait since 1978 for this.
Merci @GraffardRacing @AgaKhanStuds.
One more #QPAT maybe… teapaw.org/ashsh/status/210675020…
There is nothing quite like the #QPAT.
Everyone fighting for the best view.
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@francegalop @paris_longchamp
From the darkness comes light!
Miss Yechance wins the #Abbaye for @karl_burke after a terrible day yesterday with Fallen Angel.
@kieran_k24 leading her in.
Unfortunately it is a second casualty of #QPAT weekend.
Thoughts with @RalphBeckett and his team.
Good morning from Paris on #QPAT day!
Dry and warm it’s a perfect day for Racing.
