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Fri 09 Sep 2007Stack hopeful of good runA total of four Irish horses, including the Aidan O'Brien pair of Queen Elizabeth II Stakes contenders Excellent Art and Duke Of Marmalade, will be in Group One action at Ascot tomorrow but there will also be top-flight Irish interest in New York tomorrow night as Alexander Tango bids for a Grade One double at Belmont Park.The Tommy Stack-trained filly runs in the $600,000 Flower Bowl Invitational over a mile and a quarter on turf, the same course and distance on which she landed the Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap earlier this month.