Pau Tips and Racecourse Guide
Pau Racecourse hosts exciting flat and jumps racing from December to February. The race program is spread over 24 PMU fixtures and there are a greater number of jumps races.
56,000 spectactors attended the 2019/20 meeting and there is plenty to enjoy at a site where races were first held in 1842. The British settled and imported horseracing culture in the 19th century, attracted by the good weather.
Today the racecourse is not only a training centre, but holds a key place in the winter jumps calendar with its sister course Cagnes-sur-Mer.
Pau has a polytrack circuit for flat racing, which has a 400m home straight.
Many good horses have started their careers at Pau or raced here.
Sirene D’Ainay won the Pau Champion Hurdle before running a great 2nd to Quevega in the 2013 renewal of the Mares Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. More recently, Easysland won the 2020 Grand Cross de Pau in the silks of JP McManus and then doubled up in the Cross Country at the Cheltenham Festival.
Pau Tips
Pau Horse Racing Tips Today – 09/02
A maiden for purebred Arabians may not look the most appetizing betting contest on Pau’s 12-race gala card today, but there is quite simply a huge gulf in class between favourite Wala’a and today’s rivals today.
Dropping down from stakes company for the first time, the four-year-old filly finished last season with a slightly unlucky 6th place in the Saint-Cloud Group One. Her ability to break well and travel will be an asset in this polytrack contest. Her trainer excels with Arabians and sent out a 1-2-3-4 with four runners last month.
Wala’a rates as a confident bet to win from stall 7.
1.50pm Pau – 2pt win Wala’a @ 10/11 (Fitzdares, Ladbrokes, Bet Victor, SkyBet etc or EVS with Bet365)
Pau Top Trainers (2020)
Flat
1. Jean-Claude Rouget 8 wins (29%)
2. Charles Gourdain 7 wins (12%)
3. Didier Guillemin 6 wins (19%)
4. Damien De Watrigant 6 wins (17%)
5. Simone Brogi 5 wins (14%)
Jumps
1. Guillaume Macaire 22 wins (20%)
2. David Cottin 19 wins (14%)
3.Francois Nicolle 11 wins (11%)
4. Gabriel Leenders 10 wins (16%)
5. Daniela Mele 8 wins (17%)
Pau Top Jockeys (2020)
Flat
1. Jean-Bernard Eyquem 7 wins (25%)
2. Valentin Seguy 6 wins (13%)
3. Maryline Eon 5 wins (16%)
4. Julien Augé 5 wins (15%)
5. Ioritz Mendizibal 4 wins (8%)
Jumps
1. Clement Lefebvre 10 wins (20%)
2. Kevin Nabet 10 wins (18%)
3. Felix De Giles 10 wins (14%)
4. Nathalie Desoutter 8 wins (22%)
5. Geoffrey Re 8 wins (18%)
How to get there
Bus
The T2 bus will cost €1 and it takes 15 minutes to reach the racecourse from Pau town. Get on at Palais de Justice and head northbound.
Drive
The drive to Pau racecourse from the town takes 10 minutes. There are 500 parking places.
Fly
Pau airport has flights from Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Marseille and Marrakech.
Pau Top Races
Jumps
G3 Grand Prix de Pau
Listed Prix Camille Duboscq
Listed Grande Course de Haies de Pau
Listed Prix Antoine De Palaminy
Listed Grand Cross de Pau
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Pau Tips Archives
Pau Horse Racing Tips Today – 17/01
The AQPS chase (12.41pm) features the return to action of Grade 1-placed hurdler Japon and he'd pick these up and carry them if showing his old form. However, he wasn't at his best in two starts last spring and has been off since. He returns to action with the...
Pau Horse Racing Tips Today – 04/02
A great card at Pau today with my interest draw to the novice chase at 12.00pm UK time. Twist of Art rates as a confident bet for me at 7/4. Strong pedigree (bred by Julian Richmond-Watson), useful hurdles form (winner on debut) and looked really good here on...
Pau Horse Racing Tips Today – 10/12
The opener at Pau this morning rates as probably the most esoteric betting event of the weekend but I'm keen to get involved at the UK prices. Kareem remains a maiden but a useful one at that. His rating of 45 gives him the class edge here and he is worth...
Pau Racing Tips Today – 08/02
I'll make this brief, as the race is off in 20 minutes. I put Vandrimar up at 12-1 on his latest outing at Pau a month ago. Given plenty to do by his inexperienced conditional jockey, he was nevertheless running a big race in second when unseating at the last....
Pau Horse Racing Tips Today – 28/01
The third division of the mile handicap at Pau (11.00am) is desperately weak, even for the grade, and at the prices it is worth chancing O Gre Des Saisons to come good at the 22nd attempt! The five year old finished runner-up in three handicaps last term, on...
Pau Horse Racing Tips Today – 11/01
Sign up to our free tips newsletter or Telegram channel for the best prices on our French racing tips. A quartet at double-figure prices at Pau today, starting with Hitech in the Quinte. I put him up at Auteuil in October, where he failed to shine, but...
Pau Horse Racing Tips Today – 18/12
Race Sharp offers free tips for all meetings at Pau throughout the year. Sign up to our free tips newsletter for the best prices on our French racing tips. Erwan Grall sent out 12 winners from his Maisons-Laffitte base at this Pau meeting last year and there...
Pau Horse Racing Tips Today – 14/12
Race Sharp offers free tips for all meetings at Pau throughout the year. Sign up to our free tips newsletter for the best prices on our French racing tips. Avolta had the re-opposing Slip Sliding Away one place behind her on debut at Bordeaux in late October...
French Racing Tips – 06/02
The claiming hurdle at Pau is another weak contest - it has been a particularly uncompetitive division so far this year - and Top Prince could go very well at a nice price. The David Henderson-trained six year old was in good form last spring, finishing second in...
French Racing Tips – 04/02
The highlight of the Pau meeting for the four year olds takes place today and this year's renewal of the Prix Camille Dubosq looks a really competitive affair. Old friend Loumonrok (who was tipped up in this column when scoring at 40-1 at Cholet in November) is a...
