Style Vendome’s Lily’s Candle Swoops For Marcel Boussac Triumph

[Wandering Eyes]

Allowed off at an almost unconsidered 27-1, Martin Schwartz’s Lily’s Candle (Fr) (Style Vendome {Fr}) upstaged her seven rivals and swooped late for Sunday’s G1 Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac to kick off ParisLongchamp’s Arc Sunday with a bang. The grey yielded an instant dividend on the €390,000 Schwartz had paid the night before at Arqana’s Arc Sale. Having opened up with a June 15 debut sixth tackling seven furlongs at Saint-Cloud, she graduated upped to one mile at Marseille-Borely next time July 12 before doubling up in the Aug. 4 Listed Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles reverting to seven at Vichy and she was a last-out fourth over that distance here in the Sept. 2 G3 Prix La Rochette. Settled at the tail of the field for the most part, she was under pressure when gifted an opportunity for a wide run with 300 metres remaining and kept on relentlessly for continued rousting in the closing stages to deny Matematica (Ger) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) by a short neck nearing the line. Star Terms (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) endured traffic in the straight and proved best of the rest, the same margin adrift in third.

LILY’S CANDLE (FR), f, 2, by Style Vendome (Fr)
      1st Dam: Golden Lily (Fr), by Dolphin Street (Fr)
     2nd Dam: Miller’s Lily (Fr), by Miller’s Mate (GB)
     3rd Dam: Lymara (Fr), by Lyphard
(€15,000 Ylg ’17 AROCT; €390,000 HRA ’18 ARQARC). O-Martin S Schwartz Racing; B-Mme P Lepeudry (FR); T-Fabrice Vermeulen; J-Pierre-Charles Boudot. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0, €275,560. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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