Prix Niel
After a two and a half month break, Hours After returned in the autumn of 1988, but failed to reproduced his best form. In the Prix Niel at Longchamp on 11 September, he finished tenth of the thirteen runners behind Fijar Tango. On his final appearance he finished sixteenth of the twenty-four runners behind Tony Bin in the 1988 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.