Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly

 I went back to the bouquiniste yesterday & found 

EIGHT MORE Horse 🐎 pins ! 🤸‍♂️

To pin on my boater hat for PRIX DE DIANE at Chantilly today. 

The TER train to CHANTILLY départs on track 15, 1:04 from Gare du Nord. I thought the train would be full of fancy hats 👒 

c/o France Galop

But they all must be taking limos… 

c/o France Galop

We were lucky 🍀 The weather lightened up. 

Yesterday was 🥵 très chaud

I took the shuttle bus. Lots of traffic to the hippodrome.

The hats 👒 are fabulous!

Picnics 🧺 on the grass 

Are so Renoir.

When your hat and dress match the melon first course. 

The Prix de Diane, sometimes referred to as the French Oaks, is one of the most important  And prestigious Group 1 horse races in France 🇫🇷 

I bought a navy T-shirt (40€) with a Prix de Diane logo.

They had my boater hat for 50€.

I got mine at a brocante for 5€. Yes that’s Chantilly whipped cream on my face.

You could pre-order a fancy lunch from Ladurée in a lovely hatbox (50€).

No one was throwing out their luncheon hatbox…l checked.

The Prix de Diane, sometimes referred to as the French Oaks, is one of the most important  And prestigious Group 1 horse races in France 🇫🇷 open to 3-year-old thoroughbred fillies.

 It is run at Chantilly over a distance of 2,100 metres 

(about 1 mile and 2½ furlongs), 

And scheduled to take place 

Part 2 - coming soon