Story 7: Spending a day at the races

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Built when Deauville was founded, this is where you can see the most flat races in France, the discipline where the speed of thoroughbreds is expressed. If race meetings are organized all year long, every summer, Deauville-La Touques hosts the Meeting de Deauville Barrièrerenowned for its prestigious Group 1 races, located at the highest level of the equestrian competition scale. For a month, the world's greatest thoroughbred owners and representatives of the major French and international horse racing companies meet there.

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Between mid-June and the end of October, theDeauville-Clairefontaine racecourse vibrates to the applause of the grandstands for the Meeting de Clairefontaine. What makes it unique? Its ability to host all three racing disciplines: flat, trotting and jumping (hurdles and steeplechase), making it the only tri-disciplinary racecourse on the Normandy coast. Every year, it hosts some twenty race meetings, six of which are emblematic: the Prix Luth Enchantée, the Prix du Défi du Galop and the Grand prix de Clairefontaine (on the flat); the Grand steeple-chase de la Ville de Deauville, the Grande course de Haies Guillaume d'Ornano and the Prix Léopold d'Orsetti (over jumps).

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1. Single, paired or trio betting
2. Discover the backstage of the racecourse during a guided tour
3. Admire the horses in the show ring
4. Meet the jockeys
5. Vibrate in the stands
6. Have fun with the many activities dedicated to children
7. Picnic on the grass of the racetrack
8. Coup de ❤: attend a race in semi-nocturnal then relax in a guinguette atmosphere.