Miss France (horse)

Miss France (foaled 23 March, 2011) is an Irish-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. In May 2014 she won the 1000 Guineas.

Background

Miss France is a bay filly with no white markings, bred in Ireland by Dayton Investments. She was sired by Dansili, whose other progeny have included Harbinger, The Fugue, Dank and Rail Link. Her dam, Miss Tahiti, was a top-class racemare who won the Group One Prix Marcel Boussac in 1995.

Racing career

2013: two-year-old season

Miss France began her racing career at Deauville Racecourse on 1 August when she finished ninth of the ten runners in a maiden race over 1200 metres. On 31 August she started 5.3/1 second favourite for a race over 1600 metres at Chantilly Racecourse. Ridden by Maxime Guyon, she accelerated clear of her opponents in the last 200 metres to win by one and a quarter lengths from Indonesienne, a filly who went on to win the Prix Marcel Boussac. Four weeks after her win at Chantilly, Miss France was sent to England to contest the Group Three Oh So Sharp Stakes over seven furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse. She was ridden by Mickael Barzalona and started 7/2 second favourite in a nine runner field. After being restrained at the back of the field he moved forward to take the lead inside the final furlong and prevailed by a head from Lightning Thunder, despite appearing to idle in the closing stages.

Miss France 1997

Miss France 1997, the 50th Miss France pageant, was held at the Futuroscope in November and December, 1996. Contestants traveled to Saint-Barthelemy for two weeks in November, and they repeated at the Futuroscope two weeks before the pageant and the final competition on December 13, 1996. The event, held at the Futuroscope Congress Palace was broadcast live on TF1, with more than ten million viewers.

The president of the judging panel was the beautiful Frenchwoman Christiane Martel Aleman, who had been Miss France 1953 and Miss Universe 1953, the leading actress in Mexico in the 1960s.

The winner, Patricia Spehar, travelled to Miami, Florida, USA, to compete for the title of Miss Universe 1997 in May. She finished in 37th place.

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Places

Contestants

The 44 Miss France 1997 contestants were:

Miss France 2010

Miss France 2010, the 63rd Miss France pageant, was held in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur on December 5, 2009. Malika Ménard of Normandy was crowned Miss France 2010 by the outgoing title-holder Chloé Mortaud of Albigeois Midi-Pyrénées, who was 5th runner-up at Miss Universe 2009 and 3rd runner-up at Miss World 2009.

For the first time since 1987, Miss France was chosen by viewer voting, after the five finalists had been announced during the live broadcast. Only the judges had selected the five finalists out of the top twelve.

The 37 contestants traveled to Martinique for fashion shoots, videos and interviews, from 13 to 21 November.

Malika Ménard represented France at the Miss Universe 2010 pageant in Las Vegas on August 23, 2010. Some runners-up represented the country in other pageants, including Miss World 2010 and Miss Europe 2010.

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Places

Order of announcements

Top 12

Top 5

Preliminary events

Martinique

France

France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European part of France, called metropolitan France, extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. France spans 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and has a total population of 66.6 million. It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. The Constitution of France establishes the state as secular and democratic, with its sovereignty derived from the people.

During the Iron Age, what is now Metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The Gauls were conquered in 51 BC by the Roman Empire, which held Gaul until 486. The Gallo-Romans faced raids and migration from the Germanic Franks, who dominated the region for hundreds of years, eventually creating the medieval Kingdom of France. France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) strengthening French state-building and paving the way for a future centralized absolute monarchy. During the Renaissance, France experienced a vast cultural development and established the beginning of a global colonial empire. The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots).

France (disambiguation)

France is a country in Europe.

France may also refer to:

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France (European Parliament constituency)

In European elections, France was a constituency of the European Parliament. It was replaced by subdivided constituencies in 2004. The boundaries of this constituency were the same as the member state of France. Its MEPs can be found in MEPs representing the French constituencies before 2004

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