The Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and Prix du Jockey Club victor Sottsass recorded his first winner on Sunday when Ultrafragola made a successful debut in the Prix des Marettes at Deauville and the filly could not have been a more perfect candidate to be her sire’s pathfinder.

She is a homebred for Peter Brant, who raced Sottsass, and is out of a mare who was one of a number of high-class fillies and broodmares Brant purchased to support the son of Siyouni when he retired to Coolmore Stud.

Ultrafragola is trained by Jean-Claude Rouget, who also masterminded the career of Sottsass and was ridden to victory by Christophe Soumillon, the jockey who was in the saddle for the first four races of Sottsass’s career including his debut as a juvenile at Deauville.

The filly ended up an impressive and easy winner from Bella India and Marques and Michel Zerolo, racing and breeding manager to Peter Brant and agent under the Oceanic Bloodstock banner, said the victory was not entirely unexpected.

The exact same combination of connections, as well as Sottsass, had been a whisker away from winning the equivalent race for colts earlier in the card with Chauncey Gardiner beaten by Misunderstood.