Deauville Tips and Racecourse Guide
Deauville is perhaps France’s most exclusive racecourse and offers a wonderful collection of top-class races during in August carnival. The seaside resort is popular with Parisians and has hosted racing since 1864, originally in order to compete with Dieppe and offer a complementary gambling outlet to the casino.
Deauville has racing over various distances and also benefits from a polytrack ring to host racing through the winter months. In 2021 it was confirmed that the course would be upgraded further with floodlights, in the hope of boosting average attendances in the off-season and maximising betting turnover on its races.
There are not many places in the world you can lie on the beach, eat wonderful seafood and watch a Group One in the space of a couple of hours but if you dream it, Deauville has it.
The Arqana Sales are recommended to visit for free theatre, particularly at the yearling sales. Deauville’s best races are the Group One Prix Morny for juveniles and the Group One Prix Jacques Le Marois for milers.
The most popular nightspots are the Brok Cafe for legendary mojitos and Le Drakkar for fine dining.
Deauville Tips
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 01/02
Foxtrot Zulu looks like the standout form pick in Deauville’s second race this afternoon.
Mario Baratti’s four-year-old mare has posted some strong efforts in defeat as a three-year-old and is taken to win what looks like a weak maiden this afternoon at odds of 3-1 or 7-2.
1.33pm Deauville – 1pt win Foxtrot Zulu @ 7/2 (QuinnBet, Fitzdares and BetGoodwin)
Deauville Top Trainers (2020)
1. Andre Fabre 23 wins (19%)
2. Stephane Wattel 15 wins (15%)
3. Stephane Cerulis 15 wins (12%)
4. Jean-Claude Rouget 9 wins (20%)
5. Andrea Marcailis 13 wins (13%)
Deauville Top Jockeys (2020)
1. Pierre-Charles Boudot 41 wins (20%)
2. Maxime Guyon 36 wins (16%)
3. Mickael Barzalona 34 wins (16%)
4. Cristian Demuro 30 wins (16%)
5. Christophe Soumillon 24 wins (20%)
How to get there
Train
The TER train from Paris St Lazare costs €34 to get to Trouville-Deauville station in 2 hours and 15 minutes. Unfortunately the train is not a high-speed TGV but then it means the tickets are cheaper and you still avoid the mad August traffic if able to leave the car behind. Once in Deauville, everything is a short walk and there are plenty of taxis.
Fly
There are flights to Deauville St. Gatien, but these tend to be very seasonal and now the route is a big Covid-19 casualty. Direct flights have run from London City and Bournemouth airports in recent years.
Ferry
Brittany Ferries has crossings from Portsmouth to Le Havre in under six hours. From Le Havre, it is a 50 minute drive.
Drive
One of the easiest ways to get to Deauville as a group is by car. Take the Channel Tunnel to Calais and then hug the coastal motorway. The drive from Calais to Deauville is three hours and there is rarely traffic.
Deauville Top Races
G1 Prix Jacques Le Marois
G1 Prix Jean Romanet
G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest
G1 Prix Morny
G1 Prix Rothschild
G1 Prix Jean Prat
G2 Grand Prix de Deauville
G2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano
G2 Prix Kergorlay
G2 Prix de Pomone
G3 Prix de Cabourg
G3 Prix du Calvados
G3 Prix Gontaut-Biron
G3 Prix de Lieurey
G3 Prix de Meautry
G3 Prix Minerve
G3 Prix de la Nonette
G3 Prix de Psyché
G3 Prix Quincey
G3 Prix des Réservoirs
Deauville Map
Deauville Tips Archives
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 28/12
Happy Christmas to all readers, old and new! Here's hoping that this next tip can fare better than my last, Tag, who halved in price and got no run! Back to Deauville this afternoon and luck in running shouldn't be as critical in the 9-runner Prix Vodkato at...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 20/12
In Race 4 at Deauville this evening, I’m backing Tag at 7-1+. Hammered late in the betting last time, he won over C&D really impressively at 3-1. Jockey Hugo Boutin looked really confident throughout and makes the trip up to Deauville today from Marseille...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 05/12
All eyes are on Cambacérès in Race 2, a Wootton Bassett colt who finished 4th on debut in a race where the winner, 2nd and 5th have won since. He was given an educational ride on debut and is described as being tense by his trainer. With normal improvement he...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 03/12
In the opener at Deauville, Fabre’s Ribble Vibe is overpriced at 3-1. The stable has won five 2yo maidens in the last couple of weeks and the main reason I think it’s 3-1 and not 5/4 is because Barzalona is either on holiday or honoring riding commitments overseas...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 19/08
Classic Flower may not be considered as ‘exciting’ as she was earlier on in the summer, but Patrice Cottier’s filly still looks well up to the standard required to land this afternoon’s Prix du Calavdos. Fancied for the Prix Six Perfections, she finished like a...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 17/08
A dream result for this column on Tuesday with a 50-1 place in the midweek highlight, the Prix Guillaume d'Ornano. It's back to the same track we head this afternoon for a cracking evening card with a handful of informative juvenile races. The timing is...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 15/08
We saw a commanding performance from juvenile Grey Man on Sunday and if you have a chance to watch a race on your lunch break today, the 12.58pm Prix du Mezeray features the exciting Kingman filly Mlle Moliere for Andre Fabre. I've personally had a strong bet...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 13/08
Having just put a bottle of champagne in the fridge, let's hope that today's visit to the track ends up as a profitable one! Grey Man has been the subject of a bit of money this morning in the Circus Maximus Prix François Boutin having already been tipped...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 06/08
Conditions are likely to be quite testing at Deauville today where one horse stands out to me. Race two is the Prix Moonlight Cloud, confined to three-year-old sprinters who haven't won a Group race. British raider Mill Stream has opened up favourite at...
Deauville Horse Racing Tips Today – 20/01
There are five divisions of the 1m4.5f handicap at Deauville this afternoon and our bet on the card goes in the third of them (5.58pm). Clever Actress had a wide trip throughout when a close-up fifth here a month ago, on what was her latest out. Beaten three...
