Supreme Soul coming with class and stamina

It will be very interesting to see how SUPREME SOUL performs in Sunday's overnight allowance at nine furlongs and 25 yards after finishing seventh, as the 6-5 favourite, at a mile two weeks prior, eased from a furlong and a quarter out by Shane Ellis, yet staying on, tenderly handled, among other runners being ridden flat out.

Ellis even had time to undo his goggles, inside the last half-furlong, possibly to get a better view of ROY ROGERS rallying to hold off COCO CHANEL and late-charging BIGBANG in an exciting finish, which sent the battling grey to open allowance/graded stakes as fodder for NIPSTER, TOONA CILIATA and company.

Meanwhile, SUPREME SOUL, the Triple Crown champion of 2019, fifth in the grade one Diamond Mile that year behind SHE'S A MANEATER, STRANGER DANGER and TOONA CILIATA, playing the graded stakes/open allowance/overnight allowance Snakes and Ladder, drops five pounds after one race, returning with 121lb, seven heavier than last September when he was narrowly beaten by SENTIENT in the top-level Chairman's Trophy.

After lounging around at exercise with high-priced three-year-old stablemate, BLACK BOMBSHELL, hardly raising a hair off a 60-day lay-up, SUPREME SOUL has been declared to race in a figure eight and put in his first real piece of gallop, seven furlongs in 1:33.0 on Monday.

Nine-month break

Don't be fooled by the seemingly innocent time or lay-up. SUPREME SOUL needed only one race, off a near nine-month break last July, to beat CRIMSON and SUMMER SUN by a neck at nine furlongs and 25 yards, played possum in his next outing behind stablemate TOONA CILIATA, before having his head lopped off by SENTIENT when sticking it out in the Chairman's Trophy a month later.

Everything about SUPREME SOUL screams out-of-class on his favoured route, running the bends against 11 rivals, some of whom have never won a two-turn race. At the weights, getting five pounds from off-colour MARQUESAS and almost sitting level with MESSI, UNCLE VINNIE, BIG BANG, MASTER OF HALL, and ROHAN KABIR, SUPREME SOUL's class and stamina should prevail.