2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

The 2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 1 October 2006.[1] It was the 85th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
LocationLongchamp Racecourse
DateOctober 1, 2006 (2006-10-01)
Winning horseRail Link

The winner was Rail Link, a three-year-old colt trained in France by André Fabre. The winning jockey was Stéphane Pasquier.[2]

The pre-race favourite Deep Impact finished third, but he was later disqualified after testing positive for a banned substance.[3] The disqualification had left a sore spot on Deep Impact's reputation in Japan, with the sharp decline in attendance and betting of that year's Arima Kinen (which also was Deep Impact's retirement race) being attributed to the controversy tainting the image of the horse, and by extension horse racing among the Japanese public.[4] One of the journalists eligible for voting in the JRA Award, Shunsuke Hamaki of Sports Hochi, also cited this scandal as to why he voted for Daiwa Major as Horse of the Year rather than Deep Impact, stating that fair play was violated by the scandal and "didn't consider the horse for Horse of the Year at all".[5]

Race details
  • Sponsor: Groupe Lucien Barrière
  • Purse: €2,000,000; First prize: €1,142,800 [6]
  • Going: Good
  • Distance: 2,400 metres
  • Number of runners: 8
  • Winner's time: 2m 26.3s

Full result
Pos. Marg. Horse Age Jockey Trainer (Country)
1 Rail Link 3 Stéphane Pasquier André Fabre (FR)
2 nk Pride 6 Christophe Lemaire Alain de Royer-Dupré (FR)
½ Deep Impact (disq.) 4 Yutaka Take Yasuo Ikee (JPN)
3 2½ Hurricane Run 4 Kieren Fallon André Fabre (FR)
4 2 Best Name 3 Olivier Peslier Robert Collet (FR)
5 snk Irish Wells 3 Dominique Boeuf François Rohaut (FR)
6 4 Sixties Icon 3 Frankie Dettori Jeremy Noseda (GB)
7 1½ Shirocco 5 Christophe Soumillon André Fabre (FR)
  • Abbreviations: snk = short-neck; nk = neck

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Rail Link.

References
  1. "2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe". Racing Post. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  2. "Rail Link takes shock Arc victory". BBC Sport. 1 October 2006. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  3. "Deep Impact disqualified from Arc". BBC Sport. 16 November 2006. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  4. Kenichi, Nomoto (2007-01-27). "(12/26)去りゆく格差社会のスター". Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  5. Shunsuke, Hamaki (2007-01-12). "私がディープを年度代表馬に選ばなかった訳". Sports Hochi. Archived from the original on 2007-01-14. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  6. "2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe". France Galop. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
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