Promising stayer Fieldmaster will take another step towards better races over summer and a possible tilt at the Mornington Cup in February when he tackles the Peter Moody Handicap at Caulfield on Wednesday.Patrick Payne has high hopes for the New Zealand-bred four-year-old who performed well during his initial campaign with the trainer earlier this year.After winning a maiden in handy style at Woodville in New Zealand, Fieldmaster arrived at Payne's stables on the recommendation of long-time fri

Promising stayer Fieldmaster will take another step towards better races over summer and a possible tilt at the Mornington Cup in February when he tackles the Peter Moody Handicap at Caulfield on Wednesday.

Patrick Payne has high hopes for the New Zealand-bred four-year-old who performed well during his initial campaign with the trainer earlier this year.

After winning a maiden in handy style at Woodville in New Zealand, Fieldmaster arrived at Payne's stables on the recommendation of long-time friend and mentor Kevin Myers and made an instant impact when winning at his Australian debut at Moe.

The gelding made brilliant progression and within four runs was sent out third favourite in the Group One Queensland Derby, eventually finishing 10th to Dariana.

"He had a fairly hard time as a three-year-old so I thought we'd be careful with him and give him a nice spell in Queensland and then bring him back for the summer and autumn," Payne said.

"There are a lot of options for him at this time of year and we'll just aim to take him through the grades."

Payne, who won the Mornington Cup this year with veteran stayer Capecover, will target the race again with Fieldmaster as a recent $100,000 prizemoney boost and a ballot exemption from the 2011 Caulfield Cup loom as tempting bonuses for the gifted yet lightly-raced stayer.

Another New Zealand-sourced stayer, three-year-old Zenocoin, also runs at Caulfield for Payne but the trainer is undecided as to whether the lightly-raced Kiwi is up to city grade.

"I expect him to improve a lot on his run at Moonee Valley when he had a month between runs and just seemed to be a bit ring-rusty," he said.

"I'm not sure if he's good enough but I certainly expect a better effort than what he showed last time."

Zizz, Payne's third runner on Wednesday's program, appears to have better claims based on a strong second to War Ends at Sandown when returning from a spell, but his trainer warned that race day tends to bring out the worst in the sprinter.

"His run first-up was good and he won well at his first run for us in April but he's a very nervous horse," he said.

"The country environment seems to suit him but he can get put off on race day, it's an ongoing worry but he's OK at the moment.

"He's suffered from bad ulcers during his career and they are caused by stress so the trick is to keep him as calm as possible, he gets stressed very easily."