Strong N Powerful, backed down to favourite but eased to be the $28 third fancy in Sunday's penultimate race at Kranji, lived up to his name - but victory came only in the last bounce.

Ridden by champion apprentice jockey Simon Kok, the Kuah Cheng Tee-trained five-year-old moved up from almost last to beat $402 outsider Augustano by just a nose in the $70,000 Class 3 race over 1,400m.