It Might Be Shakes off Maiden Tag

Debutante It Might Be You looked to have a bright future ahead of her as she easily won a maiden 1200m event at Te Rapa on Saturday. Despite being caught wide on the pace throughout, the Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard-trained daughter of Savabeel (Zabeel) was handled patiently by rider Danielle Johnson and once asked to extend in the straight quickly gained the ascendency, before cruising to the line nearly four lengths to the good of her nearest rival. Bred and raced by Waikato Stud’s senior statesman Garry Chittick, It Might Be You was favoured to get her raceday career off to the best possible start after winning a 1050m trial at Taupo earlier in the month, albeit much later in the season than originally expected. “We had her ready to go when she put her leg through a fence, but it’s amazing how they recover,” Chittick told NZ Racing Desk. “We’re likely to poke around and try to win a few races with her through the spring, and maybe consider going to Australia next autumn, if she’s up to it. It Might Be You is out of the stakes-winning Gr1 Telegraph (1200m) runner-up Tootsie and is a three-quarter sister to triple Group 2-winning stallion Ocean Emperor. “It’s been our policy for a long time at Waikato Stud, trying to hang on to worthwhile fillies,” Chittick said. “We sell good fillies too, obviously, but our policy by and large has been: if we’ve got a mare we like, we try and keep the first two fillies, so you don’t lose the family if something goes wrong.”