'You're lucky to get one like this' - Revival Power takes a step towards emulating illustrious sister with decisive Flying Childers win

Girls starting school throughout the country this month will know the stress of following in the footsteps of a high-achieving big sister.

How do you cope if you are constantly being compared to a star performer who everyone knows made it right to the top?

Well, you could do a Revival Power, who made herself a role model for little sisters everywhere with a power-packed performance in the Carlsberg Danish Pilsner Flying Childers Stakes to emerge from the shadow of her elder sister Winter Power, who won the Nunthorpe Stakes for Tim Easterby in 2021.

Winter Power: winner of the Nunthorpe in 2021Credit: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)

Well, not so little, as she is a tall two-year-old but she is leggy and physically immature. The sort to improve plenty as she gets older.

Which suggests she could well be up to giving the top sprinters something to think about herself next year, given what she did to Group 2 rivals here when still less than the finished article.

Like Winter Power, speed has always been her prime asset, as she showed with a remarkable change of pace to come from behind on her debut at Thirsk and win going away at 22-1.

She had finished second at Goodwood and won the Listed Roses Stakes at York before really blossoming here, making all the running under Oisin Murphy – standing in for the suspended David Allan – and scoring by a decisive length and a half from the Aidan O'Brien-trained Kansas.

"That was amazing," Easterby marvelled. "They were never going to catch her."

Don't let those debut odds suggest Revival Power's talent has caught her trainer unawares.

"I don't bet so I don't look at the price," he said. "She could gallop from the word go. She's just a natural runner and she's got that bit of kick.

"She'll improve again at three. She's one of those fantastic horses to train, you're lucky to get one like this."

Groom Amy Thorpe with Revival PowerCredit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

Winter Power finished last in this race as a two-year-old in 2020 and did not land her first Group race until taking the Cornwallis Stakes at Newmarket later that autumn.

Asked to compare the sisters, Easterby said: "They're very similar, she's just very fast. But whereas her sister was a little more hyper, this filly is more relaxed.

"We've trained her very much like Winter Power but really calm, doing nothing out of the ordinary, not doing any fancy gallops. That wouldn't do her any good. This is where you want to gallop them, on the track."

A decision has still to be made on whether Revival Power will run again this season but she will definitely stick to five furlongs.

"I'm very excited," Easterby said. "It's great when you get one like that, they're not difficult to train when they're like that. She's very good."

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