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Below par: Rainbow View has yet to win this season

Rainbow View can finally show her true colours

Will Hayler
31 Jul 2009


Rainbow View will probably never have a better chance to silence her many doubters and return to winning ways in tomorrow's Blue Square Nassau Stakes (C4, 3.05), the highlight of the final day's action at Glorious Goodwood.

There may be a first prize of over £100,000 but the potential rewards to Rainbow View's connections extend far beyond that sum.

Unbeaten in four starts as a juvenile, including a Group 1 success, her value as a broodmare would soar if she could win another top-level contest as a three-year-old.

At the start of the season it hardly seemed imaginable that by the end of July, the John Gosden-trained filly would have failed to secure another victory.

Rainbow View went into the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket in May as hot favourite on the strength of her two-year-old form but struggled to act on the fast ground.

Next it was the Oaks at Epsom, where again she disappointed when seemingly failing to see out the 12-furlong trip.

But the signs were much better at Royal Ascot in the Coronation Stakes where, with a clear run, she would have got much closer to the winner Ghanaati.

Not seen to best effect off a slow pace when fourth behind Goldikova in the one-mile Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket earlier this month, Rainbow View has continually shaped as if tomorrow's mile and a quarter is her optimum distance and can show her class once again.

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