Poistion Of Power lands a seventh career victory in comfortable style (Picture: Race Coast)
In the fifth race at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Friday night, an A Stakes event over 1200m called the Knicks Go Cup, the Alyson Wright-trained five-year-old Vercingetorix gelding Position Of Power had his 13th start and made it a seventh win.
He was 1kg out at the weights with the best weighted runners, but in his previous start he had kicked impressively in the final stages of a 1000m poly maiden and it looked like he could handle the four point raise plus the two points he was out at the weights.
He was duly backed into 18/10 favourite and after jumping well from draw two under Keagan de Melo it never looked in doubt.
He settled beautifully in the box seat behind the pacey King Of The Gauls.
He then kicked well at the top of the straight and when the challengers started looming he easily found extra to win by a commanding 1,50 lengths from Thisiswhatitmeans with Imposing, Future Variety and King Of The Gauls next best.
Kevin Wright said about the win over the weekend, “I believe the horse wants more ground. There js a 1400m race at the end of the month at Hollywoodbets Greyville which we want to run him in.”
Kevin clarified, “There is a big question mark in our minds, because he is bred to go further, so we want to see whether he is a 1400m to miler horse. I think the next run will tell us whether he can go more ground or whether he is a 1200m horse. If he does prove to want a mile it opens up a lot of doors for us and we could target a race like the Charity Mile in Jo’Burg.”
