Diamond display from filly

Platinum Diamond provided our shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain with his sixth individual Southern Hemisphere winner when she triumphed at Wanganui.

The Lisa Latta-trained filly may also be given the opportunity next time out to emulate our own Lucy In The Sky, successful in the Listed Champagne Stakes, and become a second black-type winner for the stallion.

“We’ll look at the Castletown Stakes, we’ll just wait and see how she pulls up,” Latta said.

Fourth on debut at Hawera, Platinum Diamond drifted back before picking up ground across the top and she finished willingly for rider Bruno Queiroz down the middle of the straight to open her account.

“She has showed a fair bit at the trials, and we’ve taken her along quietly as she was a late foal and went shin sore earlier on,” Latta said.

Platinum Diamond was bred by Beaufort Downs and was purchased out of their draft for $90,000 at New Zealand Bloodstocks National Yearling Sale.

She is a daughter of the Thorn Park mare Spritz who is a half-sister to the dam of the G2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes winner and multiple stakes black type Aotea Lad.