The recent form makes for interesting reading. Those last six runs read 3-4-13-4-5-3, meaning Poweracclaim has finished in the top five on four of those occasions, with one poor effort in the middle that looks like an off day rather than a pattern. The horse raced just yesterday, so it is very much a live, active runner rather than a project gathering dust.
Jockey Ben Coen has been the regular partner, riding Poweracclaim five times without a win between them. That is a combination still searching for its moment, but Coen keeps getting the call, which suggests the team believes the partnership makes sense and that the win is coming rather than that they are giving up on the horse.
Behind Poweracclaim is trainer J P Murtagh, operating out of Coolaghknock Glebe in County Kildare. Murtagh's yard has sent out 53 winners already this season, which is a healthy, productive operation — this is not a struggling small stable. When a yard of that output keeps running a horse that has not won in ten attempts, it usually means they can see something in the horse worth persevering with. The win rate for the stable as a whole suggests Murtagh knows how to get horses ready to win, so the question of when rather than if feels like a reasonable one to ask about Poweracclaim.
A horse with three places from ten races and a top-five finish just yesterday is not a lost cause — it is a horse on the edge. Sooner or later, the pieces tend to fall into place for horses like this.
| Course | Races | Results | Last visited | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Curragh Galloping |
3 | 1 third, 2 other | 3 Jun | 0% |
| Navan Galloping |
3 | 1 third, 2 other | 11 Jul | 0% |
| Gowran Park Undulating |
2 | 2 other | 2 Sep | 0% |
| Fairyhouse Galloping |
1 | 1 third | 6 Jun | 0% |
| Naas Galloping |
1 | 1 other | 9 May | 0% |