THE Stack family have enjoyed plenty of success on the first day of the Irish flat turf season at the Curragh down the years and that trend continued today when Chazzesmee came through to win the featured Nua Healthcare Irish Lincolnshire in fine style under Joey Sheridan.

The six-year-old gelding, trained by Fozzy for his mother Liz, broke his pelvis as a three-year-old and has raced just four times since. When he has been seen, he has shown himself to be a talented sort, winning twice and finishing second in a mile handicap on Irish Derby weekend on his most recent start before today.

Sent off the well supported 3/1 favourite, the eye was drawn to the son of Excelebration as he made smooth headway from his held up position under Sheridan at the two-furlong pole and he picked up well to see off the race-fit Smooth Tom and the British raider Raadobarg, who won this contest two years ago.

Chazzesmee is versalite ground wise and should have plenty to offer going forward but his trainer was already thinking about his next race which could come this Saturday in the Lincoln at Doncaster.

“We’ll see how he is during the week. If everything was okay with him, we could go to Doncaster under a 7lb penalty,” said Stack.

“He has never been short of ability once we ironed out a few kinks in him. We brought him over to Saratoga last year and he got a stone bruise and couldn’t run and then coming back he got stuck in some airport in Holland for four days. Some vet was giving out about his paperwork. In the end I just ran out of time to run him, so it wasn’t his fault.

“I’d say eventually he can step up to listed class. We’ll see how he is during the week but if he’s okay we might as well have a go at the Lincoln, he’d have nothing to lose.

“He’d probably want to be well in (at the weights), it would be a harder race than this one. I haven’t even checked what the ground is like over there but we’ll see what happens.”

Chazzesmee was cut to prices ranging between 6/1 and 10/1 for the Doncaster contest.