HORSE RACING
Slack filly may head for Ascot after win in Ireland
Owner-breeder Mary Slack is used to shopping at worldwide bloodstock sales, but she could shortly be seeking the right outfit for the famous Royal Ascot meeting in the UK in June. Slack may well have a runner at Ascot as her Irish trainer, Fozzy Stack, is considering that target for her filly, Diamond Fields, which won the grade3 Gladness Stakes at Naas in Ireland on Sunday. "Both Ascot and New York are possibilities for her, so we will have to see where we go," said Slack after jockey Chris Hayes had brought the filly home in the 1,400m race. "I’m very pleased for Mary Slack — it is the biggest winner she has had in Ireland or England," he added. Hayes commented: "I gave her a terrible ride, but I had a willing partner. "It was a funny race and more of a three-and-a-half furlong sprint and she is tough and genuine." Cape Town-based Form Bloodstock have made numerous successful purchases for Slack overseas. They bought Diamond Fields for €55,000 at the 2014 Goffs Yearling Sale. A bu...
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