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Mark Nunan
Nation travels Powerfully at Dundalk
Powerful Nation beats Amazing Athena
© Photo Healy Racing
Powerful Nation (11/4) impressed when running out a comfortable winner of the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Race at Dundalk.
Owned by the Kevin Sean Tommy Walsh Partnership, the 100-rated colt had been touched off in Listed company when last seen in early July. Andrew Slattery's mount tracked the pace and was travelling all over the leaders from early in the straight before being pushed out to beat Amazing Athena by a length-and-a-half.
Trainer Andy Slattery commented: “He stumbled coming to the line in Tipperary and we felt that's what got him beat. He had a little high suspensory injury.
“We took him up to Stephanie Moore who has a spa and he's only back on the go five or six weeks.
“I was going to bring him here today for a piece of work, because I want to go for the Legacy Stakes. When I saw this race I said he might as well run.
“I've never had anything as fast as him. Today was a gallop for the Legacy. He's a good horse and the owner is in no hurry to sell him which is lucky for me.
“I'd say he'd stay six but he has so much speed, why change it. He's hacking all over those a furlong down.”
Quotes from Gary Carson