Sole Power

Sole Power
Sole Power ridden by Wayne Lordan after winning 2010 Nunthorpe Stakes.
Sire	Kyllachy
Grandsire	Pivotal
Dam	Demerger
Damsire	Distant View
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	18 March 2007
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	G Russell
Owner	Sabena Power
Trainer	Edward Lynam
Record	65:12–7–7
Earnings	£2,089,058
Major wins
Nunthorpe Stakes (2010, 2014) Temple Stakes (2012) Scarbrough Stakes (2012) Palace House Stakes (2013, 2014) King's Stand Stakes (2013, 2014) Al Quoz Sprint (2015) Flying Five (2015)
Awards
Cartier Champion Sprinter (2014) Irish Horse of the Year (2014)

Sole Power (foaled 18 March 2007) is a British-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. A specialist sprinter, he won twelve of his sixty-five races and competed in five different countries in a nine-year racing career. He is unique in being a dual winner of both the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Nunthorpe Stakes at York. His racing style is distinctive: he is usually restrained by his jockey for most of the race before producing a single burst of acceleration in the closing stages.

He won one minor race as a two-year-old but after winning on his debut as a three-year-old he was unplaced in his next four races before recording a 100/1 upset victory in the 2010 Nunthorpe Stakes. He did not race again that year, but returned as a four-year-old to win the Temple Stakes and finish third in the Prix de l'Abbaye. In 2012 he recorded his only success in the Listed Scarbrough Stakes but was placed in the Al Quoz Sprint, Temple Stakes and King's Stand Stakes.

As a six-year-old in 2013, the gelding won the Palace House Stakes and the King's Stand Stakes, finished third in the Nunthorpe and second to the Japanese horse Lord Kanaloa in the Hong Kong Sprint. In 2014 Sole Power was unbeaten in his first three starts, recording repeat wins in the Palace House Stakes, King's Stand Stakes and Nunthorpe Stakes. At the end of 2014 he was named Cartier Champion Sprinter and Irish Horse of the Year.

Sole Power is a small bay gelding with a white blaze bred in England by G. Russell. He was sired by Kyllachy, a top-class sprinter who won the Nunthorpe Stakes in 2002. At stud Kyllachy has sired many successful horses including Twilight Son, the Dubai Golden Shaheen winner Krypton Factor and the Chairman's Sprint Prize winner Dim Sum. Sole Power's dam was the unraced, Kentucky-bred mare Demerger, a daughter of the Sussex Stakes winner Distant View.