FLAXMAN Holdings’ homebred two-time Eclipse Award winner Main Sequence powered to victory in his season debut winning the $200,000 Grade 2 Mac Diarmida Stakes with an impressive turn of foot over the turf course at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.

The six-year-old Aldebaran gelding ran down determined rival Twilight Eclipse after tracking well back in the mile and three furlong turf test, winning by three-quarters of a length.

He will now head to Dubai for a start in the Grade 1 Dubai Sheema Classic at the end of March.

Reunited with jockey Rajiv Maragh and making his first start since capping a sterling season in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf, Main Sequence earned his fifth straight graded stakes score for trainer Graham Motion.

“I was a little concerned at the top of the stretch because it looked like (Rajiv) kind of asked him and they motored away from him a little bit,” Motion said. “But once he got that turn of foot going, he’s gone. There’s not much stopping him.

“Every time he’s run, to me, he’s improved. Every race – knock on wood – he’s come out of it a little better. I just loved the way he behaved today. That was exciting to see him like that.”

Last season, the brilliant chesnut swept four Grade 1 races in a row, concluding with that victory in the Breeders’ Cup Turf. He was named champion turf horse and champion older horse at the end of the year.

“He’s a superstar,” Maragh remarked. “I never remember getting that feeling from any other horse. He blows your socks off the way he finishes. He’s a ‘wow’ horse, definitely.”

Bred in Kentucky out of the Pivotal mare Ikat, Main Sequence has not been defeated since coming to North America last spring.