Spice Fair and Rainbow Jazz at Goodwood
Things were not great, to be frank a lot worse than not great, at Kempton yesterday after our two year old races had been run and everyone at Rowdown is terribly, terribly saddened to learn of the death of one of the travelling Stable Staff there during the later course of yesterday evening’s racing.
Before this Point in Time ran a race at Kempton that will bode well for his three year old career going on steadily all the way up the straight after finding things all happening a bit too quickly in the first half the race; she will improve with time, age and distance.
This afternoon we take our grand person, Spice Fair, back to Goodwood to run in the NH Jockeys Flat Handicap, a race in which he finished third in in 2013. Not too much should be read into him being beaten a long way at Kempton at the beginning of September when he lost his action. He has been just a terrific person for both Saxon House and Rowdown winning nine times and being placed 25 times from 80 starts and we all wish him well this afternoon as he reaches well into the veteran stage of his racing career.
Just over an hour later we run Rainbow Jazz in Goodwood’s seven furlong Nursery under Nicola Currie; it would be true to say that he has not as yet translated what he achieves on the Downs onto the racecourse and he is also going to run on Soft ground this afternoon which might not suit him as well as something more robust. But if he can recapture what he achieved at Newbury and Goodwood in the Summer he does have the intrinsic ability to run well.