Hippodrome of the Riviera

The Hippodrome of the Riviera is a Hippodrome which is located on the commune of Cagnes-sur-Mer. It opens its doors in 1952, with provisional installations, and it is necessary to wait until December 1960 to attend its official unveiling.

The hippodrome of the Riviera organizes two meetings (winter and summer) and touches all the disciplines of the Equestrian sport. Despite everything, it is especially the meeting of winter which makes the celebrity of the hippodrome. Indeed, they is at that time as are held the most prestigious races there, as well in trot as in dish. It should be said that the Mediterranean Climat makes it possible to keep tracks in good state, which is very interesting for the horses of dish which hate the muddy ground that one at that time finds on the remainder of the France of the year.

The hippodrome extends on approximately 63 hectares and can accommodate 11 300 people (with a platform of 6 000 places).

One finds several tracks, in particular 16 hectares of grass tracks for the dish and the obstacle, a track sands of it fiber for the dish of 4 hectares, and a track of red ground trot of 3 hectares.

The infrastructures did not cease developing and improving, which enabled him to become one of the most important hippodromes of France.

The most prestigious trotting race is the Grand critérium speed of the Riviera, which is one of the great classics of the season of trot in Europe.

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List of hippodromes

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Official site of the hippodrome

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