It’s time for Power From Above

POWER FROM ABOVE should benefit from a torrid pace in Sunday’s Kenneth Mattis Memorial, which should leave the nine-furlong and 25-yard route race at the mercy of the closer.

Void of early pace but packing turn of foot in the stretch run, POWER FROM ABOVE can do no better than mind her own business near the rear for the first six furlongs before making her signature move leaving the three-pole.

Reporting three pounds lighter than when she ran on similarly for second behind NEO STAR at the trip on July 8, relegating SISTREN TREASURE third close home after being switched off the rail, POWER FROM ABOVE needs only to stay out of trouble to mow down the leaders.

ANTARCTICA, PROVOCATIVA, SISTREN TREASURE and SUPER ALEX will be hell-bent on slipping each other at various stages of the event, exertions playing into POWER FROM ABOVE’s running style of rapid acceleration in the stretch run against tiring rivals.

SPIRIT OF LIGHT, an Argentinian imported from the United States and winner of five races from 25 career starts, also finishing second on five occasions, makes his Caymanas Park debut at age seven after being active at exercise for a couple of months.

Though earning $75,970 in the United States, SPIRIT OF LIGHT’s most productive year was at age four in 2021, after which things went south. Though he won two races as a five-year-old in 2022, SPIRIT OF LIGHT had obviously lowered his sights to have earned almost a half of what he had bankrolled the previous year.

From what he has shown at exercise, SPIRIT OF LIGHT might need a run or two to get his bearings in a pace which is expected to be sharp from the word go.

Closers RAINSVILLE and SONNY T AND CHIPPY have worked well at exercise. However, SONNY T AND CHIPPY sharing topweight 126lb with SPIRIT OF LIGHT is almost treasonous whereas RAINSVILLE, in five starts this year, has not been anywhere close to the form he enjoyed at the backend of last season.

Undoubtedly the in-form closer, POWER FROM ABOVE was gaining for the entire stretch run last Saturday when finishing second to MONEY MISER at a mile after being 16 lengths behind a half-mile out.