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Off to Paris on Friday and there’s a possibility this could be a meeting we’ll be attending.
Very late in the day I know but does anyone know how far it is from a metro station and if so which one?
Thanks
MartinChamp des courses d’Enghien – on the RER (overground) not the Metro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaubonne
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Course is right next to a Station…." Champs Enghien" or similar. It is on the overground line from Gare Du Nord.
Thanks guys. Flying into Charles De Gaulle for 10am (meeting connecting flight of my OH at 10.30 I think) is it possible to get to the course by 1pm including going to Gare Du Nord for left luggage etc?
Depends how slick/stressed a traveller you are I guess!
Its about 30 mins journey time to G du N from airport and about 40 mins to Enghien from there. Trains are frequent so its certainly possible.
Thanks David. Got the walk from La Defense to Auteuil at the weekend to look forward too (probably when very hungover) so fingers crossed.
Just in case …. when you get to Gare du Nord, don’t queue for a ticket to Champ de Courses d’Enghien at the main ticket office. There is a smaller one for the suburban SNCF "Transilien" trains like the one you want. I can only describe it in terms of coming off the Eurostar platform. Turn left, and walk for some way past the open platforms on the left, and eventually there is a ticket office with about six windows and a single-queue system.
Or use a ticket machine!
Trains are every 15 minutes and the journey time 17 minutes. You can see the course from the station. Have fun.
Same as last year then, firefox.
The gratis entrance will help offset the cost of the meal in the panoramic restaurant, where – unlike Cheltenham – all you are expected to pay for is the nose-bag and the plonk, as the view is also thrown in for free.
It’s almost enough to make you want to advocate a Tote monopoly.
Or kick Edward Gillespie in the danglers.
Will miss having no oncourse betting though Grassy
Least Ladcrooks will have the earlies up though and Monoalco, Lord Carmont etc. all entered
I was really there for the occassion/experience, rather than to have a serious punt (the wife was with me after all!) so the lack of bookies wasn’t really a consideration, and I was quite happy to diddle away on the PMU.
That’s my issue too Grassy, though she has said she doesn’t mind what we do in the day as long as we can go out to dinner and clubbing at night
It was run about 3 or so weeks ago Firefox – only time the course is used all year I think and well you can see for yourself how unique it is
Will be using my phone for Ladbrokes etc provided it works
It was run about 3 or so weeks ago Firefox – only time the course is used all year I think and well you can see for yourself how unique it is
Certainly it’s the only time the Velka Pardubicka course – Taxis and all – is used in its entirety, but there are qualifying races for the big one during the course of the preceding summer which take in many of the banks and brooks.
I have this picture of the race set as my desktop background image right now – a real favourite shot of mine, taken from with the ditch of Taxis itself;
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0ctv1vC1nt42m/610x.jpg
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Cracking picture Jeremy. My favourite is one of the field clearing Bechers in the National – sends hsivers down my spine every time I´m remotely close to Aintree
Cheltnum is beverly with fences, horrid ones at that, i love wetherby… I like the vareity of fences in french races, wish we had some at wetherby.
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