French jockey Eric Legrix came back from the brink to win three at Sha Tin last night then declared Rainbow And Gold the local horse 'most likely' for the Hong Kong Vase in December. Legrix won on Universal Glory, landed a big betting move on Traveller Star then wrapped up his treble in the Group Two Queen Mother's Cup on the Brian Kan Ping-chee trained Rainbow And Gold. The four-year-old had been runner-up in the Group One Champions And Chater Cup behind Oriental Express and brought that form down in class last night for a hollow victory that will not be the last in good company. 'He won tonight because he was just too good for them,' Legrix said. 'Last time he ran against the best horses in Group One at level weights and today he was a handicapping certainty. But this is a very good horse and at 2,400 metres he might be the best horse in Hong Kong next season. He ran well against the best in the Champions And Chater and he is only going to be better and stronger next season.' Kan took the quinella in the Cup, with Ironic Commander handy to the lead throughout and fighting back to bet Magic Hands for the minors. Legrix said the soft ground last night had not been a hindrance to Rainbow And Gold, but he felt the horse was not flattered by the surface in his 2.75-lengths win. 'He feels like a real stayer. He can be very lazy and you have to let him find his feet and then work at him but when he sees the straight he changes legs and really stretches,' he said. The treble took Legrix to 29 wins for the season but the night could have been so different as he went breathlessly close to hitting the turf after a freak home turn accident in the opening race when debut runner Lucky Master (Wendyll Woods) overreacted to the presence of another horse in front of him. 'Lucky Master shied away from the heels of the horse in front and he came out very quickly. It wasn't Wendyll's fault, there was nothing he could do,' Legrix said later when he could afford to laugh. 'My horse was hit in the legs and reacted very quickly and he tried to avoid him and ran out too. I lost an iron and was out of the saddle and I thought 'I am down, I am down'.' Only Legrix's lightning reflexes allowed him to avoid the fate of being the fifth jockey down in a week. Stewards later ordered Lucky Master to barrier trial around a bend satisfactorily before he will be allowed to race again. Legrix's second winner, Traveller Star was a gem of a ride and a huge result for the stable followers of Francis Lui Kin-wah who backed the horse down to half his early odds. From barrier eight, Legrix managed to find the rails on Traveller Star after just a few hundred metres then took a delicate split in the home stretch to put the race away quickly. 'You know I worked this horse before and thought he felt very good,' Legrix said. 'Then he was racing with light weights and I was unable to ride him and I lost him and sometimes you don't get back. But I saw he would have my weight and I chased the ride again and now I have got him back. He gives me a good feeling on the track in the mornings and I think he can be a very good stayer later on.' Legrix said another stroke of luck had helped gain Traveller Star a perfect passage last night. 'He jumped well and I was lucky because the horse which would have been inside me, Good Chance, was scratched very late and he might have been fast enough to keep my horse out,' he said. 'But without him there, Traveller Star was able to go cross and he had dream trip.' His other winner, Universal Glory, ended a frustrating run of defeats with his first win in 16 starts. Trainer Alex Wong Yu-on declared the win as much a relief as anything else. 'It has taken him a long time to win but at last he has,' he said. 'He is young, so I hope he can do it again.' Legrix's near-fall at Happy Valley on Wednesday was examined last night at a stewards' inquiry. Legrix was almost dislodged from Malayan Pearl when Guscott and Sir Galway shifted in near the 400-metre mark, but no action was taken against Patrick Tse, Sir Galway's jockey, as the stewards 'could not be satisfied he was fully responsible for the crowding as it was clear some shift did come from Guscott'. But the apprentice was 'told he must make a greater effort to avoid the type of crowding that occurred'.