Spit Spot

The most eye-catching part of the record is what happens when Spit Spot arrives at Chelmsford. Two wins from 6 races there makes it a genuine course specialist — that is winning 1 in every 3 visits to a track where plenty of horses never win at all. The first of those wins came on 24 September 2022, which is where the story really started. Finding a track that suits you is half the battle in this sport, and Chelmsford clearly agrees with Spit Spot in a way that not every venue does.

On normal ground conditions, the numbers get even more interesting. Two wins from 7 races on a standard surface works out at roughly 1 in 3 again — better than its overall career average of about 1 in every 6 races. That suggests Spit Spot is at its best when conditions are straightforward rather than extreme, which is useful information for anyone following the horse closely.

Patrick Wadge has been the regular partner in the saddle, riding Spit Spot in 10 of its races and winning 2 of them — a win rate of 1 in 5 together, which is noticeably better than the horse manages with other jockeys. The partnership clearly works. Behind the scenes, the yard of Lucinda Russell and Michael Scudamore, based up in Milnathort in Perth and Kinross, has been in excellent form this season with 49 winners sent out — so Spit Spot is operating within a team that knows how to get horses ready to win.

The last victory came at Perth on 21 October 2025, and with two wins from the last 6 races, there is nothing here to suggest the horse is going backwards. It raced just yesterday, so this is very much a story still being written. Spit Spot is not a star of the big occasions — it competes mostly at Class 5 level, the bread-and-butter end of the sport — but it is a horse that wins races, keeps competing, and has a track it genuinely loves. That counts for a lot.