After Superluminal won the 2015 Jamaica St Leger over 2,000 metres, beating current Horse of the Year Seeking My Dream by a length, he did not progress as expected.

Now Superluminal has signalled that those days are behind him, with a compelling victory in the Kenneth Mattis Memorial Trophy last Saturday.

Returning to competitive racing earlier this year from a nine-month break, Superluminal suffered two defeats, finishing second by three-quarters of a length to Italiano over 1,500 metres in July and second by five lengths to Hologram Shadow over 1,300 metres in August before he produced a two-length victory over Golden Bullet in a high claiming event over 1,400 metres on September 2.

Last Saturday, the Ian Parsard-trained bay colt produced another performance of significant note to win his second consecutive race.

Facing his toughest opponents this season, Superluminal (Natural Selection – Thousand Hills) ran impressively to get home in the Overnight Allowance event over 2,000 metres by two-andthree- quarter lengths in 2:07.0 minutes.

Ridden by Paul ‘Country’ Francis, Superluminal sat behind the early pace as stable companion Kiri (Dane Dawkins) dictated the fractions from Raging Prospect (Omar Walker) for most of the way until Superluminal, switched from the inside, took over approaching the half-mile.

Although Raging Prospect (second) and Miracle Star (third) posted late challenges in deep stretch, Superluminal continued his acceleration and powered home convincingly.

“Good…the performance by Superluminal was good today. When he wins, Superluminal doesn’t win by more than a length or two, so two and three quarter lengths were good enough for him.

“The plan was always to win. He drew post position one again, so ‘Country’ knew he had to get him off the rails and he did a good job. He knows how to ride him and he made sure he had everybody covered from five furlongs out and just went home for the win.

“Superluminal is not an easy horse to ride. He has to be ridden throughout any race he is entered in, but thankfully, Francis knows how to ride him well,” Parsard said.

Francis revealed that he had expected more competition from rivals.

“I did expect a bit more fight from the others. I did expect to win but not this easy, as I thought they would be more competitive. “My horse is fit and I know how to ride him. The rest is history,” Francis declared.