You know, once upon a time, before WWI, this was the older horse championship of Europe. No Arc at that time; one could say that the French created the Arc in 1920 to replace it, since the Jockey Club at Baden-Baden could no longer put up a big enough purse to attract the best. Foreign runners of the highest class decorate the Grosser Preis's winners list for that period, including the immortal Hungarian mare Kincsem (won it 3 times); two of her tail-female descendants also won it for Hungary, Ksiaze Pan in 1910 and Mosai Ksiaze in 1913.
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