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Jubilee was another fairytale in the making as he had broken his pelvis eighteen months earlier and his future appearance on any racetrack looked doubtful. To cap it all, Edward Lynam suffered a nasty heart attack in August of 2013 which, as he put it, made “last year our worst personally and our best professionally!” Lynam’s path to training was not a typical one. He started out as a builder before he went on to learn the training ropes under Jim Bolger. He had his first runners in 1984, with his first Pattern victory in 1988 when Tantum Ergo won the C L Weld Park StakesGp 3. He first hit the international scene in 2008 when winning the Group Two Park Stakes at Doncaster with Duff, who became Lynam’s first runner outside Europe when contesting the Hong Kong Mile in 2009. The first Group One triumph came in 2010, when Sole Power stunned the York crowd in the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at the odds of 100/1. At this point, Sole Power’s only previous victories had come on the allweather track at Dundalk. The son of
Slade Power, ridden by Wayne Lordan, wins the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot
Kyllachy has since won or placed in eight Group Ones, including a third in the 2012 King’s Stand before his back-to-back wins in the five-furlong event. Sole Power, a seven-year-old gelding, and Slade Power, a five-year-old entire, are
owned by Mrs Sabena Power, and the pair are set to clash in the Group One July Cup at Newmarket before going on their separate ways and undoubtedly remaining as key players in the international sprinting scene through the end of the season. n
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