2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

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2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Rail Link
Location	Longchamp Racecourse
Date	October 1, 2006 (2006-10-01)
Winning horse	Rail Link
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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.

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

Race details

Sponsor: Groupe Lucien Barrière
Purse: €2,000,000; First prize: €1,142,800 ^[3]
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.

Sex: Colt
Foaled: 26 March 2003
Country: Great Britain
Sire: Dansili; Dam: Docklands (Theatrical)
Owner: Khalid Abdullah
Breeder: Juddmonte Farms

Disqualification of Deep Impact

The pre-race favourite Deep Impact finished third, but was later disqualified after testing positive for Ipratropium bromide, a banned substance.^[4] 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 was also Deep Impact's retirement race) being attributed by critics to the controversy tainting the image of the horse, and by extension the sport in general among the Japanese public.^[5] 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".^[6]

References

^ "2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe". Racing Post. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
^ "Rail Link takes shock Arc victory". BBC Sport. 1 October 2006. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
^ "2006 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe". France Galop. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
^ "Deep Impact disqualified from Arc". BBC Sport. 16 November 2006. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
^ 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.
^ 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.

External links

Colour Chart – Arc 2006

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