Les Arcs (horse)

Les Arcs
Sire	Arch
Grandsire	Kris S.
Dam	La Sarto
Damsire	Cormorant
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	24 April 2000
Country	United States
Colour	Bay or Brown
Breeder	Elk Manor Farm
Owner	Sheikh Mohammed Willie McKay
Trainer	John Gosden Richard Guest Tim Pitt Stewart Parr J S Moore
Record	42: 12–7–3
Earnings	£527,591
Major wins
Cammidge Trophy (2006) Golden Jubilee Stakes (2006) July Cup (2006)
Awards
Top-rated European-trained sprinter (2006) Maryland-bred Horse of the Year (2006)

Les Arcs (24 April 2000) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse who was bred in the United States and trained in the United Kingdom. After racing with mixed results over a variety of distances (and an attempt at hurdling), the gelding emerged as a top-class performer when switched to sprint distances. In 2006 he won six races including the Golden Jubilee Stakes and the July Cup, both Group One races and was the highest-rated European sprinter of the year. He was also named Horse of the Year by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association. In all, Les Arcs won twelve races and was placed ten times from forty-two starts between May 2003 and August 2010.

Les Arcs is a dark bay or brown gelding with no white markings bred by John Moran's Elk Manor Farm at North East, in Cecil County, Maryland. He was from the first crop of foals sired by Arch, a Kentucky-bred stallion who won the Super Derby in 1998. Arch's other major winners include Blame, Archarcharch (Arkansas Derby), Arravale (E P Taylor Stakes), Love Theway Youare (Vanity Handicap) and Pine Island (Alabama Stakes). Les Arcs dam, La Sarto was a granddaughter of Anne Campbell, a mare whose other descendants included Fasliyev and Misty for Me.

In September 2001, the yearling colt was sent to the Keeneland sales, where he was bought for $140,000 by the bloodtstock agent John Ferguson, acting on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed. He was then exported to England to be trained by John Gosden at Newmarket, Suffolk.

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