NSW south coast flyer Chance Bye impressed plenty of people in her debut win in the $250,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick, including Gai Waterhouse.Sydney's premier trainer didn't have a runner in the 1000-metre race but about 15 minutes after the Nursery watched her much-hyped two-year-old debutante My Amelia win at the home track of Chance Bye, Kembla Grange.My Amelia was a $400,000 Inglis sales purchase as a yearling but was not paid up for the Nursery.She started the odds-on favourite at Kembl
NSW south coast flyer Chance Bye impressed plenty of people in her debut win in the $250,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick, including Gai Waterhouse.
Sydney's premier trainer didn't have a runner in the 1000-metre race but about 15 minutes after the Nursery watched her much-hyped two-year-old debutante My Amelia win at the home track of Chance Bye, Kembla Grange.
My Amelia was a $400,000 Inglis sales purchase as a yearling but was not paid up for the Nursery.
She started the odds-on favourite at Kembla and would have been favourite for the Nursery but Waterhouse admitted her filly would have been blown off the park by the Michael Tubman-trained Chance Bye.
"When the owner bought her he didn't decide straight away who he was going to give her to and consequently she wasn't paid up for the Inglis race," Waterhouse said.
"She's still very green and weak and in a way it was good she wasn't here at Randwick today, she wouldn't have beaten that filly."
Chance Bye, who started the equal $4 favourite with the unplaced Courgette, led all they way with Kathy O'Hara aboard to win in a class record time of 57.52 seconds.
She was so dominant that her nearest rival, Queenslander Slice and Dice ($4.60), was 3-1/2 lengths second with Ancestor ($19) a long head away third.
Tubman knew as soon as Chance Bye jumped well from her inside barrier that the race was in the bag.
"I always thought that if she began well she'd shit in and she did," Tubman said.
The Kembla horseman has just three horses in work and has been in the game for a couple of decades on and off.
"I was training for 20 years and had a real good horse (Crimson) and he broke his leg in a track accident and I gave it away for 10 years," Tubman said.
"This is my second city winner but the other one was about 20 years ago."
Tubman trained a relation of Chance Bye and was keen to buy her at the yearling sales, but nobody else was.
"I had Geiger Spirit and she's related to her and by the time I went through the book at the sales it had already been sold. I asked how much it went for and I was told she was passed in," Tubman said.
"They had a $20,000 reserve on her and I went up and asked if I could have a look at her and he said straight away 'I won't take a penny under $15,000' and that was it."