CHAMPION sprinter Slade Power got off to a flying start in 2018, his first season with runners, finishing in the top 10 first crop sires, both by number of winners and by races won. His 16 individual winners of 21 races include Princess Power, who scored four times, Strings of Life, second in the Listed Empress Stakes at Newmarket, and Jack’s Point, third in the Listed Prix Zeddaan at Deauville, while Bruce Wayne was second in the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes at the Curragh second time out.