TOP class French-trained sprinters are a rare commodity – the European champion sprinter has hailed from France just three times in the last quarter century - but City Light would need only a little more progress to be in the shake-up when the end-of-season gongs are handed out.

Trained by Stephane Wattel, City Light may have had a fitness edge in Sunday’s Group 3 Prix de Saint-Georges given that this was his sixth start since October.