WILLIE McCreery won both maiden races for two-year-olds recently at Tipperary with Dolce Strega and Bridgets Fable. The latter was making her debut, while Dolce Strega was winning at the second time of asking.

Dolce Strega is a homebred daughter of Zoffany who has made a sensational start at stud with his first runners, already being responsible for four individual stakes winners, three of them at Royal Ascot. His son Washington DC was runner-up to Air Force Blue in the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes last weekend. He stood this year for €12,500 at Coolmore.

Dolce Strega is the first foal of New Plays, an unraced daughter of Oratorio who is also dam of a yearling filly by yet another first season sire who is having a great year in Canford Cliffs. New Plays is an own-sister to a winner and a half-sister to four others, including the Doncaster Cup runner-up Darley Sun. They are all out of the winning Rainbow Quest mare Sagamartha and her siblings include the 2005 Champion juvenile filly in England Flashy Wings.

Bridgets Fable was bred by Peter and James Jones and Peter has been associated with this family for many years now. The filly is by Champs Elysees, recently sire of his first Group 1 winner in Trip To Paris, and is the second foal and second winner of 2015 out of the unraced Mark Of Esteem mare Mark Too. The first foal is the three-year-old Lawman gelding The Compeller.

Mark Too is a half-sister to Tiger Royal who won the then Group 3 Greenlands Stakes. Two of her half-sisters were also unraced and bred stakes-winning juveniles, Cradle Brief producing Sir Xaar, and Again Royale being the dam of Sacred Aspect.