IN her short racing career Omniblue has won four out of the six races she has contested and she will look to continue her good run when she lines up in the Shannon Springs Standardbred Pace Heat One (2130m) tonight at the Bathurst Paceway.

In her last outing Omniblue finished second in a tight race and before that won her last two races, both run over 2130 metres.

Trainer Mark Butler was playing down his filly’s chances but as the form horse and with experienced driver Steve Turnbull behind her, Omniblue will go into the race one of the favourites.

“You’re never too confident going into a race but she is a nice little filly,” Butler said.

“She does go nice, she really tries her guts out.”

Turnbull will have the challenge of taking her from the second row but the consolation is that she is behind another highly rated chance in Tellusomethin.

The Lagoon trainer believes the Dennis Picker-trained Tellusomethin would be one of the biggest threats to Omniblue in

the race.

Tellusomethin finished second in the Final Prickly Pear Bar and Restaurant Pace less than a metre behind the winner Bemboka Ace and finishing a head in front of another Butler-driven horse Williewa Spirit.

“If he goes like he did last week he will probably lead and be hard to beat,” Butler said.

However, well known tipster Richard Knight had Omniblue installed as a 4/6 favourite with Tellusomethin at $3.

Omniblue’s last result was a second placing in the Muriel Colley Pace (1730m) in just her third race back from a spell.

The brown filly by Trump Casino out of Dreamin Jentaras was the short priced favourite ($1.40) but was beaten to the line by the John O’Shea-driven Peggy Rick ($13) who led for the entire race.

“She [Omniblue] was going hard to the line but John O’Shea had a great drive,” Butler said.

The Lagoon trainer gave his four-year-old filly a spell between November and June and the break hasn’t hurt her form.

“She had about two months in the paddock,” Butler said.

“I just felt that she needed a break after her EI [Equine Influenza] shots and I thought it was a good time to give her a freshen up.”

Butler said he thought the filly was a good racer who was capable of two sprints in a race as well improving on her best mile rate of 2:01.2.

“Yeah I think so, she wasn’t beating much early on but she’s really gone from nothing to something,” the trainer said.

“She can follow speed all day, I think she is capable of going under the two minute mile but just lately she has been starting off the second row which makes things more difficult.”

The first race gets underway at 5:05pm with Butler’s filly running in race six at 7:40pm.