FOZZY Stack is hoping today’s Coolmore Stud City Of Troy Tom Cooper Irish EBF Futurity Stakes will help launch a fruitful autumn for his unbeaten Royal Ascot winner Nola Soul - one of five quality colts vying for Group 2 honours at the Curragh.

This seven-furlong race has been won by top performers such as Giant’s Causeway, Hawk Wing, Teofilo, New Approach, Gleneagles, Churchill, Anthony Van Dyck, Henri Matisse and, most recently, Constitution River. Aidan O’Brien supplies the early market favourite, Giant Sequoia, but Stack’s Chesham Stakes scorer sets a strong blacktype standard under Seamie Heffernan.

Speaking ahead of the Justify colt’s first start since the Royal Meeting nine weeks ago, Stack told The Irish Field: “We’re happy with him at home and it’s always been the plan to come here. Hopefully, he’ll run a good race for everyone.

“He’s a big horse and we always intended on giving him a bit of time on the other side of Ascot. You’d be hoping by doing that, we could have him running into the second half of the year and give him a chance.”

On what could lie in store this autumn, the Group 1-winning trainer added: “We’ll take one step at a time; how he gets on at the Curragh will probably tell us a lot about what the rest of the year might look like for him.

“The Irish Champions Festival is a possibility, but he’s also in the Dewhurst at Newmarket and we could look at options in France. Hopefully those options could be open to him, but let’s see how the weekend goes first.”