WARRNAMBOOL trainer Colin Chandler admits he may be throwing Bring Me Luck in the deep end but the lure of a $70,000 two-year-old fillies race on her home track was too great.
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Bring Me Luck tackles expensive well-bred fillies trained by top Melbourne trainers plus runners from some local stables in the richest two-year-old race at the carnival.
"We're just having a throw at the stumps with Bring Me Lucky,” Chandler said.
“She's a home-bred.”
Chandler said Bring Me Luck’s owners Tim Dennis and Grant Downey were long-time stable clients.
“I've trained and broken in horses for them for years,” he said.
“They have just been wonderful owners for so many years.
“It would be a great result if Bring Me Luck could win this race. We gave her a run at Terang more than a fortnight ago and I thought she ran well. She covered a bit of ground in the run but it was a good effort.”
Chandler said Bring Me Luck had experienced shin soreness a couple of times early in her preparation. But she's ready for Tuesday’s race.
“I sent her down to Mark Young at Geelong following her Terang run,” he said.
“She did some work on the water walker at Mark's just to keep her up to speed."
The respected horsebreaker, who has two horses in race work plus 12 that he's breaking-in, said he was worried with barrier 13 for his runner.
"I would have hoped for a better barrier but it's what it is," he said.
"I would have liked an inside barrier. She'll just jump and run over the 1000 metres. It's good we've got jockey Jason Benbow as he's ridden her before."
TAB had Chandler’s runner as one of the outsiders at $41 in fixed odds on Monday.
Top Caulfield trainer Mick Price scratched the top-weight last-start Moe winner Princeess Freya.
Gimlet ($3.50-favourite) and Brugal Reward ($6) from the Darren Weir stable, the Ciaron Maher-trained In First Sights ($9) and Robert Smerdon's Riot Of Applause ($7) are tipped to be prominent in what shapes as an opening race.
