First North American winner for Powerscourt

Irish champion and millionaire POWERSCOURT (GB) (Sadler's Wells), who is

already responsible for unbeaten Moyglare Stud S. (Ire-G1) heroine Termagant,

recorded his first winner in North America when his juvenile son Mighty Monarch

captured Thursday's 3RD race at Woodbine. With Emile Ramsammy aboard, the Laurie

Silvera trainee rolled from off the pace to score by two lengths. Mighty Monarch

negotiated six furlongs in 1:11 2/5 on the Polytrack.

Powerscourt flashed talent during his two-year-old campaign for Aidan

O'Brien, rounding out the 2002 season with a runner-up effort in the Racing Post

Trophy (Eng-G1). The bay earned his first stakes victory the following year,

with a game score in the Great Voltigeur S. (Eng-G2), and ranked as an Irish

co-highweight three-year-old colt, but only reached his peak as an older horse.

In his four-year-old debut, Powerscourt romped by six lengths in a

tour-de-force, front-running performance in the 2004 Tattersalls Gold Cup

(Ire-G1). That summer, he appeared to have added another top-level success to

his resume in the Arlington Million S. (G1), where he rallied from far back to

cross the wire 1 1/2 lengths in front. His victory was fleeting, however, for he

was judged to have caused interference in the stretch, was disqualified and

placed fourth.

Powerscourt gained his revenge in the 2005 Arlington Million, impressively

defeating reigning champion turf horse Kitten's Joy by three lengths in what

turned out to be his final start. Had he not been disqualified the year before,

Powerscourt would have joined John Henry as the only two-time winners of the

Arlington Million. Even so, Powerscourt still ranks as the only horse to have

passed the post in front in two consecutive runnings of Arlington's signature

event.

Over the course of his career, Powerscourt garnered seven stakes placings,

six at the Grade/Group 1 level, including such major contests as the Breeders'

Cup Turf (G1), Irish Champion S. (Ire-G1), Irish St. Leger (Ire-G1) and Prince

of Wales's S. (Eng-G1). He retired with $1,912,272 in earnings from a record of

21-5-6-3.

Out of English Group 3 heroine Rainbow Lake (Rainbow Quest), Powerscourt is a

half-brother to multiple English stakes winner Kind (Danehill).

The nine-year-old stands for $7,500, live foal, at Ashford Stud near

Versailles, Kentucky.