Arabian Queen is a small bay mare with no white markings bred in Ireland by her owner, Jeff Smith's Littleton Stud.

At stud, Dubawi has been a highly-successful breeding stallion, siring major winners such as Monterosso, Al Kazeem, Makfi, Lucky Nine and Night of Thunder.

Ridden for the first time by Silvestre de Sousa, she finished sixth of the twenty-one runners behind the Irish-trained Anthem Alexander, who won by a neck from Tiggy Wiggy.

In July the filly was ridden by Ryan Moore when she was stepped up to six furlong for the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse and started second favourite behind the French-trained High Celebrity.

On her first appearance as a three-year-old, Arabian Queen started at odds of 9/1 for the Group Three Princess Elizabeth Stakes over 8+1⁄2 furlongs at Epsom Downs Racecourse on 5 June.

Ridden by de Sousa, she led from the start, drew away from her opponents in the last quarter mile and won by four lengths from Crowley's Law with the favoured Odeliz in third.

[8] The filly was moved up to Group One level for her next start, the Coronation Stakes over one mile at Royal Ascot in which she led until the final furlong before being overtaken and finishing fifth behind the French-trained Ervedya.

She took the lead approaching the final furlong and held off a sustained challenge from Golden Horn to prevail by a neck, with a gap of three and a quarter lengths back to The Grey Gatsby in third.

She fought against De Sousa's attempts to restrain her in the early stages and after briefly looking capable of making a challenge in the straight she faded to finish sixth of the nine runners.

She was moved back up to Group One class for the Coronation Cup at Epsom on 4 June, but after racing in second place for most of the way she faded in the last quarter mile and finished unplaced behind Postponed.

Arabian Queen reappeared after a three-month absence when dropped in class to run in the Listed John Musker Fillies' Stakes at Great Yarmouth on 14 September.