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. 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. The pre-race favourite Deep Impact finished third, but he was later disqualified after testing positive for a banned substance. 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. 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". Race details
 Sponsor: Groupe Lucien Barrière
 Purse: €2,000,000; First prize: €1,142,800 
 Going: Good
 Distance: 2,400 metres
 Number of runners: 8
 Winner's time: 2m 26.3s

Full result

 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

References

External links
 Colour Chart – Arc 2006

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2006 controversies
Controversies in Japan
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