Nakayama Racecourse
Les Arcs did not reappear until October, when he was sent to Japan to contest the Sprinters Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse. He finished seventh of the sixteen runners, four lengths behind the winner Takeover Target. In this race he was ridden by the French jockey Eric Saint-Martin, after John Egan was refused a license to ride in Japan: the problem arose from an incident in Hong Kong in 2002, when Egan was arrested, but never charged, during an investigation into alleged corruption.