Stack Eyeing Further Stakes Success

When Diamond Fields (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) won the G3 Gladness S. at Naas Apr. 9 it was a first and important 'black type' victory for the Mary Slack owned filly but also a maiden stakes win for her trainer Fozzy Stack, in his first year as the licensed trainer at the family's Thomastown Castle stables. Stack has his team in great order at the moment with seven winners on the board already and he is keen to keep up that momentum with Diamond Fields scheduled to take her chance in the G3 Athasi S. at Naas May 1. “I think we'll probably head for the Athasi with her if the ground is good,” said Stack. “I know she'll have a penalty and will be taking on younger horses, but it looks the right race. She wouldn't want it much slower than what it was the last day [yielding].” Diamond Fields ran some fine races in defeat last season and getting her head in front in a stakes race was a major priority for the trainer at the beginning of the season. With that objective achieved so early there is no reason why the 4-year-old cannot now add to her tally. “It was great to get another win out of her. She'd run some great races last season, even in America, without winning. It will have hopefully given her confidence a boost and she quickened up very smartly to win.”