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The Prix Ferdinand Dufaure is a Group 1 steeplechase in France which is open to four-year-old horses. It is run at Auteuil over a distance of 4100 metres (about 2 miles and 4½ furlongs) and it is scheduled to take place each year in late May.The event is named in memory of Ferdinand Dufaure a former committee member of the Société des Steeple-Chases de France who died in 1947. It was first run in 1951 and its distance was initially set at 4500 metres. This was cut to 3800 metres in 1953.