FOZZY Stack is off to a great start with his first runners and at Cork on Sunday he saddled the debutante Angel Sound to win the mile and half a furlong maiden for the Rebels With a Cause Syndicate. The three-year-old daughter of So You Think is from the first European crop of the champion son of High Chaparral. Bred by Teo Ah Khing and Eddie Irwin in the name of Desert Star Phoenix Jvc, the filly was sold as a yearling to MV Magnier from Castletown Stud for €65,000 at the Goffs Orby Sale.

She is one of three winners from her Danehill dam Dombeya who remained a maiden in spite of the efforts of John Gosden. Dombeya’s Oasis Dream half-sister Tuscan Evening did well and she blossomed especially when sent to race in the USA where she won the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes and was runner-up in the Matriarch Stakes. Their Hurricane Run half-brother was a dual stakes winner in England.

Dombeya’s dam was The Faraway Tree and she was runner-up in the Group 3 Park Hill Stakes. A daughter of Suave Dancer, she was one of 13 winners from Sassalya (by Sassafras) and the others included the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner Sasuru, the Group 2 Challenge Stakes winner Sally Rous, and a number of other stakes winners.

Sassalya is also the grandam of the French 1000 Guineas winner Rose Gypsy and among her many other stakes winning descendants is the Grade 1 Canadian International Stakes winner Hillstar, the son of Danehill Dancer who stands at Garryrichard Stud.