LILY’S Candle was not present at the Arqana Arc Sale on Saturday night when she was sold for €390,000 to Martin Schwartz, acting through Oceanic Bloodstock. Catalogued as Lot 4, the two-year-old listed winning daughter of Style Vendome (Anabaa) was rewarding in no small measure the €15,000 she cost at the same company’s October Yearling Sale a year earlier.

She quickly rewarded Schwartz also when on Sunday she won the opening Group 1 Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac in one of the best finishes of the day. In the process she netted more than £200,000 in prize money. She is from the second crop of the Group 1 French 2000 Guineas winner Style Vendome and is in fact his first blacktype winner.