With jumps racing on the ropes and fighting for survival, trainer Chris Hyland is hoping to score a timely feature race win on the flat with Chairmanoftheboard at Caulfield.One of the state's leading jumps trainers, Hyland would celebrate his second stakes success after the 2008 Group Three Bletchingly Stakes with Commanding Hope should Chairmanoftheboard land Saturday's Listed LT Cleary Stakes (1200m).The six-year-old's only other crack at stakes level was when he finished fifth to Lucky Secret

With jumps racing on the ropes and fighting for survival, trainer Chris Hyland is hoping to score a timely feature race win on the flat with Chairmanoftheboard at Caulfield.

One of the state's leading jumps trainers, Hyland would celebrate his second stakes success after the 2008 Group Three Bletchingly Stakes with Commanding Hope should Chairmanoftheboard land Saturday's Listed LT Cleary Stakes (1200m).

The six-year-old's only other crack at stakes level was when he finished fifth to Lucky Secret in the 2008 Group Two Schweppes Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Hyland said the key to the gelding was spacing his runs and he set him for the Cleary after he was on the losing end of a three-way photo-finish when first-up in a similar field at Caulfield five weeks ago.

"His form is pretty good in this type of class so he has a got a chance," Hyland said.

He said that it was only Chairmanoftheboard's lack of fitness that beat him last start when third to Cleary rival Johnny Fiasco in the The 65 Roses Victoria Cup (1100m) on December 5.

Cleary topweight and multiple stakeswinner Time Matters was fifth in that race.

Johnny Fiasco has since won at Moonee Valley while Time Matters was a gallant third in the Listed Christmas Stakes at Caulfield on Boxing Day.

"They probably frank the form a bit and he (Chairmanoftheboard) is fitter now," Hyland said.

"First-up he was run off his feet early and when he came at them he probably peaked on his run 30 or 40 yards out."

Johnny Fiasco has been a revelation for trainer Nikki Burke who has successfully graduated him to city class this campaign.

She said rain-affected tracks adversely affected his performances last preparation but he was now realising his potential with two wins, a third and a sixth from four Melbourne runs in the last two months.

"He has always been a good little horse but has probably taken it up a cog more than I thought he might this time in," Burke said.

Johnny Fiasco opened on Thursday as $7 third favourite behind Beltrois ($3.80) and Marveen ($6).

Time Matters was at $8 ahead of Chairmanoftheboard at $10.