Sea The Power

That single win came at Ayr on 18 September 2025, and it was no accident. The plan going in was clear: get to the front and control the race, and that is exactly what happened. It was the kind of performance that tells you a horse has a specific style and suits a specific setup — not every horse can make the running work, and the fact that Ayr delivered where York had not is telling. At York earlier in the season, Sea The Power was caught out when the early pace was too sharp for him, pulling hard when the race went slowly and then finding himself outpaced. It was a learning experience more than a failure.

Seb Spencer trains out of Malton in North Yorkshire, a yard that has sent out 13 winners already this season — a decent body of work that suggests a stable operating with purpose. Spencer was honest that the Beverley run before the Ayr win did not go to plan either, but he took the positives, flagged the horse's future and started eyeing up a step up in trip. That is significant. Moving a horse from seven furlongs toward a mile and a quarter or a mile and a half is not something trainers do unless they believe there is genuine stamina and scope there. Spencer and his team have clearly thought carefully about this horse — in their own words, they have had Sea The Power in mind for a while.

Recent form reads 9-6-1-7-3 from the last five runs, which looks mixed on paper, but strip away the context and you miss the point. The win sits in the middle of that sequence, bookended by runs where the trip or the pace did not suit. What is interesting is not where he has finished but why — and the team seem to have a clear enough read on what he needs to perform. A horse with a patient yard behind him, a preference for longer distances, and a win already on the board at three is one worth keeping an eye on as the season progresses.