CITY of Light boosted his career earnings to $5.66 million at the weekend when he picked up a winner’s purse of $4 million after landing the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes at Gulfstream Park. This was his first start since winning the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt and it was a bonus success on his way to start his stud career at Lane’s End at a fee of $35,000, standing alongside his sire.

Never out of the first three in 11 starts, City Of Light (Quality Road) had previously won the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes and Grade 1 Triple Bend Stakes. Bred in Kentucky by Ann Marie Farm, he sold as a yearling at Keeneland for $710,000 to Walnut Green. The best of three stakes-performers and six winners for his unraced dam, Paris Notion (Dehere), he is a grandson of Grade 1 winner Fabulous Notion (Somethingfabulous) and she bred seven winners including the Grade 1 Test Stakes heroine Fabulously Fast (Deputy Minister).