Special Power leaves runner-up sequence behind him at Dundalk

Jockeys brave torrential rain entering the parade ring for the Crowne Plaza Hotel Dundalk Handicap in Dundalk. Picture: Healy Racing

Runner-up in five of his six previous starts, the Andy Slattery-trained Special Power belatedly opened his account when justifying 5/4 favouritism under the trainer’s son and namesake in the six-furlong Irish Stallion Farms EBF Auction 2-Y-0 Maiden in Dundalk.

The gelded son of Slade Power again lost ground from the stalls, but came through strongly in the closing stages to master El Magnifique by a length and a quarter, with the ill-fated Enjoymyslipstream in third.