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Chance Bye to race at the Valley

20th Sep 2010

Daily Telegraph - Warwick Barr - Sunday, 19 September 2010

MELBOURNE racing is tipped to bring out the best spring form in bargain filly Chance Bye.

"I'm not kidding and I'm not exaggerating, she's a six lengths better horse going the Melbourne direction," trainer Mick Tubman said.

"She is very awkward the Sydney way but when you work her in the opposite direction it seems she is on her natural leg."

Chance Bye has galloped left-handed since her unplaced run in the $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill last month as Tubman prepares the three-year-old for a two-start Melbourne campaign.

Her program consists of Friday night's Group Three Champagne Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley and a support event on Caulfield Thousand Guineas day which offers a $100,000 Inglis race series bonus.

"The Inglis race is over 1000 metres and it is basically her spring grand final," Tubman said.

Tubman said Chance Bye would travel to Melbourne in fine fettle after a coronet problem threatened to derail her spring.

A protective boot was approved to cover the area where a cut was aggravated each time she was asked to extend.

"I'll still use the boot but the wound is completely healed now," Tubman said.

"She hasn't looked like striking herself when she gallops the Melbourne way."

Chance Bye had her final preparation work for the Champagne Stakes at Kembla Grange on Saturday morning.

A $15,000 yearling, Chance Bye has earned more than $530,000 in race prizemoney with three wins and a placing in six starts.

She became the headline horse in the lead-up to this year's Golden Slipper after winning her first three starts only to finish ninth behind Crystal Lily.

The best of her two starts as a three-year-old came when she resumed for a minor placing in the Silver Shadow Stakes at Warwick Farm last month