Revival Power too strong for Flying Childers rivals

Revival Power made every yard of the running to secure a brilliant local success for Yorkshire handler Tim Easterby in the Carlsberg Danish Pilsner Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster.

A sister to the Habton Grange handler’s Nunthorpe winner Winter Power, the youngster showed real bravery to secure Listed honours at York last time, but demonstrated raw speed and pure class to double up on Town Moor.

Sent off at odds of 17-2, she was pushed immediately to the front by Oisin Murphy and that was where she stayed throughout, as her rivals struggled to make any impact on her early advantage.

Aidan O’Brien’s second-string Kansas and Kevin Ryan’s Dickensian – third behind Revival Power at York – finished off strongly for the podium places, but they were unable to catch the front-running filly who continued a fine week for her handler after a six-timer on Tuesday.

“Well she could just gallop from the word go so you can’t really say anymore can you?” Easterby said.

“She’s great. She can just run, she’s a natural front-runner and she’s got that bit of kick.

“She is definitely going to improve at three, I mean look at her, she’s not bothered at all. She’s just one of those fantastic horses to train and you are lucky to get one like this.”

He went on: “She’s very similar to her sister Winter Power, she’s just very fast. Whereas her sister was a little bit more hyper, this filly is more relaxed.

“We trained this filly very much like Winter Power but really calm. We don’t do any fancy gallops and all that, that wouldn’t do her any good. This is where you want to gallop, on the track.”

Previous winners of this contest have gone on to contest the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint which would represent a first runner at the end of season showpiece for the experienced Yorkshireman.

Although plans need to be finalised, Easterby is toying with another run before the year is out and added: “We are thinking about running again but we don’t know yet.

“She will stay at five furlongs next year, definitely. She’s super, she really is.

“It’s great when you get one like that. They aren’t difficult to train when they are like that. She’s very good.”

Kansas may have got within a length and a half of the winner but Ballydoyle’s wait for a first victory in the Flying Childers continues.

Coolmore’s Kevin Buckley said: “We are very happy with him actually, he ran nicely.

“They were going very fast, as the fractions suggested, so we have to be pleased with that to be honest.

“It certainly wasn’t a surprise, he was racing on his merit and he’s very well-bred so we are happy with that.

“We’ve never won that race, well Ballydoyle haven’t, he ran a lovely race and we keep knocking on the door.”