The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe is the richest horse race in Europe, that carries a purse of €5m, but just how much does the winning horse get and what is the breakdown for the places?
No flat horse race in Europe carries a purse more than the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, with France’s top equine contest having €5m on offer to the top finishing horses.
This purse is then split out over the top five finishers (see below) – with the other runners just taking home the experience and the horse racing memories.
Of the €5m purse, the winning horse will bank his connections a cool €2,857,000 – which equates to approx. £2.4m for the UK raiders to eye-up.
Last year’s Arc took just 2m 25.50 secs to run, while the current race record sits with Danedream in 2011 at 2m 24.49 secs.
However, when the race was staged at Chantilly in 2016 the filly Found ran the race in 2m 23.61 secs.
Meaning based on the €2,857,000 winning prize money, the first horse past the post will earn approx €20k per second.
See below the 2024 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe prize money breakdown for the €5m purse – with the winning horse getting €1,714,000 more than the second.
Meaning there’s a lot at stake should we get a ding-dong battle up the Longchamp home straight on Sunday afternoon.
The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe runners will, however, only be rewarded for a top five finish. With the €5m split spread out between 1st and 5th.
📅Date: Sunday 6th October 2024
⌚Time: 3:20pm
🏇Racecourse: Longchamp
💰Winning Purse: €2,857,000
📺 TV: ITV / Sky Racing
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This can vary slightly and can also often depends if a jockey has a financial retainer in place with a trainer or owner.
You can see in more detail how much jockeys in the UK earn, which will give you a rough idea.
However, in short the winning rider of the 2024 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe can expect to get approx. 8.5% of any win prize money and approx. 2.60% of any place winnings.
They will, of course, also get a fee just for riding in the race, but with this around €200 this is peanuts compared to what they could be in terms of a % share of the prize money.
At these splits (8.5%) the winning Arc jockey can expect to pocket in the region of €240k. Not bad for around 2 1/2 minutes work.
When City Of Troy romped away with the Epsom Derby back on June 1st this year, the Aidan O’Brien horse banked £882k for his winning owners – John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith.
This equates to approx. €1,050,000 depending on what the exchange rate is at the moment – which is still a massive €1.8m less than the winner of Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe will get.
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The owners of Bluestocking – Juddmonte – forked out €120k in midweek to get their star mare into Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Which means they are gambling on finishing fifth or better to make a profit. The 5th place prize money is €143,000.
However, her form figures suggest she’s got every chance of doing just this. She’s raced 12 times and is yet to finish out of the top 4 in all of those races – winning four times.
Bluestocking, who has a good draw in 3, was last seen winning the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp in the middle of September.
Relive Ace Impact winning in 2023 as the Arc favourite. Making it four winning market leaders in the last seven renewals.
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