Slade Power can spark in opener

SLADE POWER is the nap choice to defy an absence of 194 days in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

The son of Dutch Art has clearly had problems, but it is encouraging that Eddie Lynam asks him to race again so late in the year and the booking of Pat Smullen would indicate connections mean business.

The selection’s sole outing came at the Curragh back in May and it was a performance rich in promise. He wasn’t the quickest away, but stayed on nicely at the end of six furlongs to finish four lengths second to Reply.