JAMES Waldron bred the Dark Angel three-year-old Easton Angel and she won her second listed race of the year when landing the Scurry Stakes at Sandown recently. Last year she was unlucky to come across Acapulco who was the only one to finish in front of her in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Michael Dods knows a thing or two about training daughters of Dark Angel – he won the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes last year with Mecca’s Angel – and he will presumably now chance Easton Angel in group company. Perhaps she will show the same improvement that her paternal half-sister did!