What we do know is the family she comes from. Her father is Caturra, a sharp, speedy sire whose offspring tend to show early pace — useful when you're two years old and still learning the job. Her mother's side traces back through Mayson, another influence associated with speed and precocity. On paper, this is a horse built to be competitive young, which at least gives her a fighting chance on day one.
The trainer is Tim Easterby, who operates out of Great Habton in North Yorkshire, and the numbers this season tell you everything about the scale of what he runs. One hundred and thirty-eight winners so far is a remarkable output — that's not a yard ticking over quietly, that's a serious operation firing on all cylinders. When a trainer of that volume bothers to run a first-time-out two-year-old, it's worth paying attention, because horses don't make it to the racecourse from a yard like that without having shown something at home first.
Fairy Stories remains an unknown quantity, and that's part of the appeal. The debut is the one moment in a racing career where the slate is completely clean.