Elevage de Tourgeville's daughter of American Post out of Golden Lily enjoyed one of the most significant updates in the sale when her year-older half-sister LILY'S CANDLE, a Listed winner when the catalogue went to press, took the Gr.1 Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac by storm, less than 24h after having been purchased by Martin Schwartz at the Arc Sale.

Antoine Lepeudry had gone to great lengths to breed the ageing Golden Lily to American Post, in a bid to take advantage of the family's amazing affinity with the son of Bering. While Golden Lily never saluted the judge, her half-sisters LILISIDE and LILY AMERICA, both by American Post, became Stakes winners while ROBIN OF NAVAN, by American Post out of another half-sister, won the Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and two more Pattern races.

However, after several years at Haras d'Etreham, the former Poule d'Essai des Poulains scorer had somewhat gone out of fashion and been sold to Haras de Treban in central France. It thus took a long drive on the lorry to produce lot 436, as well as a bit of luck for American Post died accidentaly only a few weeks later.

Such effort were rewarded when Marc-Antoine Berghgracht, Eric Puerari and Philippe Decouz locked horn until the latter emerged at the buyer with a bid of €230,000 on behalf of World Cup winning footballer Antoine Griezmann.

She is a very racy filly with great limbs and a bit of stretch, and obviously the family has worked tremendously with American Post. 

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