Auteuil, France's principal jumping course, is a flat galloping track laid out in a long figure-of-eight. A circuit of the hurdles track has twelve bush hurdles, each three feet seven inches high, with two in the finishing straight and a fairly long run-in; hurdle races are run mainly left-handed. The chase course consists of a wide variety of obstacles, including a water jump with an eighteen-foot span, a stone wall and a bull finch; races over fences can include both left- and right-handed turns.