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On Saturday, November 4, this year's racing season in Chuchle Arena Prague ended. The highlight of the derniere program, thirteenth part of the season, was the 7th PP Asset Management Prague Winter Favorite Stakes (1800 m, 100 ths CZK) for 2yo horses. It brought the easy winner, only one Czech bred horse in the field of five, Maxmilián, who won by seven lenghts and stayed unbeaten also after his second lifetime race.

The penultimate part of this year's metropolitan racing season took place in Chuchle Arena Prague on Sunday, October 22, with the very prestigious ultra-stayers race the 102nd President Stakes sponsored by Lokotrans, which was personally watched by the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel. In front of huge crowd, the favourite Magic Merlin won in the new record time of the track 3:25,15 and completed the autumn stayers triple crown.

The Eliot Cup closed the show jumping season 2023 in Chuchle Arena Prague. Thirteen of the 43 participating pairs advanced to the finals of the 145-centimeter hurdles competition thanks to flawless performance in the basic part, and five of them then repeated their clear run also in the final.

This is called form! During the last meeting of the Czech Jumping Cup in Chuchle Arena Prague, Kamil Papoušek won several competitions of grade S and higher, and in the end rode the Vivana Blue saddle to the Super Grand Prix for the overall victory.

The eleventh chapter of this year's metropolitan season in Chuchle Arena Prague offered three top-races in its program, and horses whose jockeys wore pink colours won in all of them. Five-time Czech and eight-time Spanish champion Václav Janáček won twice for the Lokotrans stable, Tomáš Lukášek reached one win for the Statek Blata Český ráj stable before leaving for a winter engagement in Qatar.

The highlight of the third September Sunday in Chuchle Arena Prague was the 20th Harry Petrlík Memorial Stakes (Class A, 1m, 3yo+ f+m, 135 ths. CZK), in which the 5yo mare, this year unbeaten, Classa was the hot favorite. She won all three races in this season by close margins, and the fourth win was the same: Classa won only by a head in front of another 5yo mare, Rabbit Coulsty (champion of this race a year ago).

The second Sunday in September is traditionally the only date of the year when, in addition to flat races, fences races are held in Chuchle Arena Prague. The highlight of the program, the EŽ Praha Gold Cup, as the longest fences race in the Czech Republic, has already written its own this year the seventeenth chapter and for the first time in its history the same horse achieved a third triumph. Favorite Sternkranz showed rocket acceleration in the end and achieved a clean hat trick.

On Sunday, September 3, the second half of this year's metropolitan racing season started in Chuchle Arena Prague. The highlights of the program were the last classic test of the year 78th PP Asset Management St Leger and the most important comparative test of three-year-old and older milers 45th CK Martin Tour Prague Stakes.

The second year of the Jana Holá Memorial show jumping competition (last August weekend) attracted a star-studded line-up of riders to the Chuchle Arena in Prague. In the end, Miloslav Příhoda took the first place, and Vladimír Tretera, Mariana Michlíčková and Anna Kellnerová also figured in the front ranks.

In the final competition of the CSIO4* CET Prague Cup four-day show jumping events, Grand Prix Air Bank, Matt Garrigan from Ireland won with the gelding Quantum Robin V. Only one jump away from the triumph was the Czech rider Sára Vingrálková, who ended up with the gelding Kas-Sini DC on second place. Israel won Friday's Olympic show jumping team qualification and Poland finished second – the two teams qualified for the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris. The Czech team placed fifth.