Game Point

The recent form makes for interesting reading. A second and a third in its last two runs suggest Game Point is in decent shape right now — it raced just yesterday and came home third, which means this is a horse at the height of its current activity. Before those two solid efforts, the form dipped — a sixth, a tenth, a fourth, and another sixth — so the upturn in the last couple of outings is a genuine development worth noticing.

Colin Keane, one of Ireland's leading jockeys, has ridden Game Point in eight of its twelve races and is yet to win on it. That is a long partnership without a victory, and at some point both horse and jockey will be hoping the next run is the one that changes that. Keane is not a jockey who gets put up on horses without reason, so the belief in Game Point clearly persists.

The trainer is R P Cody, whose yard in Dunnamaggin, Co Kilkenny has sent out six winners already this season — a yard that knows how to get a horse ready to win. That Game Point has not delivered one yet is the outstanding question hanging over this profile. Everything around it — the consistent placing, the quality of the jockey, the capable yard — suggests the ingredients are there. Whether Game Point can finally turn a place into a win is what makes it worth watching next time out.