ParisLongchamp

After two years away it's time to get racing at renamed ParisLongchamp
Historic venue has been closed for an extensive rebuild since October 2015

Like Newmarket's Craven Meeting, the reopening of Longchamp each April is a major rite of the racing spring in France.

But this Sunday's meeting represents much more for the future of the sport and its adminstrators, as the home of the Arc opens its historic gates for the first time since the completion of a €140 million revamp which has been two years in the making.

Gone are two iconic, yet faded, 1960s grandstands, replaced by a single entity designed by the renowned Paris-based architect Dominique Perrault, whose most famous landmark in the capital is the Francois Mitterand National Library.

Not all of the new public facilities will be fully operational for the first day, with France Galop opting to use the first four meetings at what will now be known officially as ParisLongchamp being used to bed in the venue before the grand opening on April 29, the day of the Prix Ganay.


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Stunning

Looks great, although I don't understand why they felt they had to modify the name.

Steckenpferd wrote: Looks great, although I don't understand why they felt they had to modify the name.

Not sure when it came acceptable to squash two words into one?

Notice the Germans do it with FootballStadion

It's a bit like renaming Sandown as EsherSandown or Kempton as SunburyKempton. It will always be plain Longchamp as far as I'm concerned - I don't think people need to be reminded it's in Paris.