ALICE Nugent paid €22,000 for the unraced Docksider (Diesis) filly Noyelles at the 2007 Arqana December Sale. It was a shrewd purchase, and the family and its various branches have grown in significance since. Indeed, another branch was highlighted last week after the Arc weekend at ParisLongchamp.

I wrote about the latest stakes winner in the family, Labeling (Frankel), following the inaugural Goffs Dubai Breeze Up Sale in 2022, one at which Alice’s husband and Goffs director Nick was on the rostrum. The second-highest price at the sale was for Noyelles’ Frankel (Galileo) son, and he sold for just over €500,000 to Big Red Farm.