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BATTLING trainer Michael Tubman’s life has been transformed in a couple of months, writes JEFF ZERBST. The old bloke pitched up to the races on 19 December with a filly who cost $15,000 after he’d borrowed the money to buy her. Chance Bye, a 2yo daughter of Snitzel (AUS), landed a massive coup when winning the Inglis Nursery (1000m) that day, and then followed up with a win in the Inglis Classic (1200m).
Money from those restricted races did not count towards a spot in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper, the world’s richest race for 2yos. So Tubman had to win Saturday’s $200,000 Silver Slipper Stakes (Gr. 2) to make the field for the big one.
No worries, mate! Tubman and the filly’s jockey Kathy O’Hara knew the script and they executed it with aplomb at a Rosehill Gardens track favouring front runners.
O’Hara quickly had Chance Bye (15-20) into stride and the filly breezed along in front in the 1100m event. O’Hara niggled at her mount when straightening, and Chance Bye went three lengths clear. There were a few anxious seconds when it became apparent that second horse Ambers Waltz (11-1) was making up ground. It was a mere flutter of angst because Chance Bye had more than enough in the tank and she got home by 1 ½ lengths.
“She wasn’t fully wound up for this, and that was a very good Golden Slipper trial,” said O’Hara. “It’s good that she’s still a bit soft. She’ll be spot on for the big one.”
Tubman, who only has two horses in training, hasn’t stopped grinning since the filly’s debut win.
“The Slipper, here we come!” he said.
“There’s five weeks to go and I won’t run her again before that. Kathy will ride her in the Slipper. She’s on the horse for life!”
Tubman and the bloke he borrowed the $15,000 from, Jack Knight, have now amassed $470,000 from their filly’s three wins. A win in the Slipper, however, would send their earnings into the stratosphere, and prove that Aussie battlers can become turf kings virtually overnight. Impressive as Chance Bye was, she can’t yet hold a candle to Australia’s older queen of the turf, Typhoon Tracy.
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