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.