How to Watch the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Australia

The Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe goes to post at 1:05am AEDT on Monday 5 October 2026, which is 4:05pm on Sunday in Paris.

Seven has it live on 7plus from 12.30am AEDT, and the Sportsbet stream and Sky Racing are the other places to look in Australia.

The clocks are where punters get caught.

Daylight saving kicks in across NSW, Victoria, the ACT, Tasmania and South Australia at 2am on Sunday, so a time worked out on the old clocks will be an hour out. Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia stay put.

Sunday’s race is the 105th running, and the last one closed to geldings before the rules change in 2027. Daryz, last year’s winner, has to get past Maltese Cross, Kalpana and a Ballydoyle team to become the first colt in nearly 50 years to win it twice.

Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Start Times Across Australia

Everything works off the Paris post time of 4:05pm on Sunday 4 October. By the time the Arc runs, daylight saving has already started in the south east, so these are the local times:

• AEDT (NSW, VIC, ACT, TAS): 1:05am Monday 5 October
• ACDT (SA): 12:35am Monday 5 October
• AEST (QLD): 12:05am Monday 5 October
• ACST (NT): 11:35pm Sunday 4 October
• AWST (WA): 10:05pm Sunday 4 October

Perth gets the best of it, a Sunday night race with the night still young.

Everyone else is staying up or setting an alarm, and with the race done in about two and a half minutes there is no room for a late start.

Your goal? To be in front of the screen before the horses load.

How to Watch the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Australia

Seven is the first stop because it is free and it has a confirmed slot in the guide. Sportsbet is the route if you would rather watch where you bet, and Sky Racing is worth checking on the day.

Let ’s go through some useful details to make sure you don’t miss even a single minute of the action in Paris.

7plus

Seven lists the Arc live on 7plus from 12.30am AEDT on Monday 5 October, which gives you 35 minutes of build-up before the 1:05am start.

7plus is free to use, so all you need is the app or the website on whatever screen is closest. Seven quotes its times in AEDT, so take 30 minutes off for Adelaide and an hour off for Brisbane.

Sky Racing

Sky Racing carries international racing on its channels and the Sky Racing Active app, but international schedules get shuffled late, so check the Sky Racing guide on Sunday afternoon to confirm the Arc is listed before you rely on it.

Sportsbet stream

Sportsbet customers can stream live racing through the app and website with a funded account while in Australia, and our guide on what sports you can watch live covers the setup.

When you watch the live stream on Sportsbet, our setup puts the vision and your markets on the one screen, which saves juggling two screens in the middle of the night.

If you are still comparing options, our guide on how to watch horse racing live runs through them.

Who Is Running in the Arc

Once the vision is sorted, the race itself rewards the lost sleep. It is run over 2400m at ParisLongchamp for three-year-olds and older, with a purse of €5 million, which sits it comfortably among the richest horse races in the world.

Daryz heads the market. Francis-Henri Graffard’s colt beat Minnie Hauk by a head last year with Mickael Barzalona in the saddle, and he has won the Prix Ganay, the Prix d’Ispahan and the Prix Foy this season, with his only defeat a third in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The history is against him. No colt has won back-to-back Arcs since Alleged in 1977 and 1978, and the last horse of either sex to manage it was the filly Enable in 2017 and 2018.

Maltese Cross is the main danger from Britain. William Haggas’s colt was second in the Derby, then won the Grand Prix de Paris over this course and distance and followed up in the Great Voltigeur at York.

Kalpana, the Andrew Balding mare, has landed the King George at Ascot and the Yorkshire Oaks, and she comes back far stronger than the seventh-placed runner of last year, when the draw did her no favours.

Ireland brings the depth. Aidan O’Brien has Minnie Hauk, Diamond Necklace and Benvenuto Cellini, while Joseph O’Brien’s Oaks winner Thundering On is in contention with Pierre-Charles Boudot booked to ride.

Japan, still chasing a first win in the race, sends Admire Terra and Meisho Tabaru, while the Gosdens added Prix Vermeille winner Friendly Soul as a free supplementary entry on Wednesday.

That took the field back up to 16 after Tuesday’s forfeit stage had cut it to 15. Final declarations land on Thursday and the stall draw follows that evening, and the draw matters.

Eight of the last ten winners came from a single-digit stall, and Daryz won last year from stall two. The forecast points to good ground at Longchamp, which keeps the quick-ground types in play.

Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Betting Markets

Win and each-way are where most of the money goes on a race like this, and a full Group 1 field opens up placings and multi-leg options as well. For the latest prices, head to the Sportsbet Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe odds page.

The draw tends to move the market more than any other single factor, so prices can shift after Thursday night’s ceremony and again if the ground changes.

The weights add another wrinkle, with three-year-olds carrying 56.5kg against 59.5kg for older horses, and fillies and mares getting a 1.5kg allowance.

That is a big part of why three-year-olds have won half of the last 20 runnings. If each-way or placings markets are new to you, our guide on how to bet on horses explains how they work.