Heavenly Power
Heavenly Power faded to finish 11th in the Scurry at The Curragh on Saturday, but it may be that you can just put a line through this run. Smartly away, he was fast through the early stages of the race, he was in front after they had gone three furlongs. He lasted in front until the two-furlong marker, but they went fast early on in this year's Scurry, and the prominent racers faded from there as the hold-up horses came to the fore. The first five home were, respectively, 14th, 11th, 13th, 10th and 16th of the 16 runners after they had gone a furlong, and the winner was still 11th passing the two-furlong marker.
Heavenly Power is better than this. Eddie Lynam's horse hasn't had a lot of luck in the Scurry in the past. He finished fifth in the race in 2023, when he didn't have a lot of racing room two furlongs out, and he finished seventh in the race last year when, again, he raced prominently in a race in which the hold-up horses came to the fore. On his next run after his defeat in the Scurry last year, he went back to The Curragh in the middle of August and won a six-furlong handicap off a mark of 86, and on his final run last season he won another six-furlong handicap at Naas off a mark of 90. He is only 3lb higher in the handicap now, and he has the ability to win more of these good sprint handicaps when things fall his way. He goes well at The Curragh, and at Navan and at Naas, and he is probably better over six furlongs than he is over six and a half or seven.
The Curragh, 19th July 2025
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