Mick Channon feels all that Malabar needs is the rub of the green as she bids for top honours in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly on Sunday.
Malabar has competed with credit in Group One races on her last four starts without quite making the first three.
Fourth in the Moyglare Stud Stakes, the Prix Marcel Boussac and the Qipco 1000 Guineas, she was eighth in the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh where she was beaten only six lengths.
However, Malabar's luck was out in the draw as she is out wide in stall 14
Fellow British raider Star Of Seville, trained by John Gosden, was allotted stall 15, while the Freddy Head-trained favourite Queen's Jewel was drawn widest of all in 17.
"That's the draw we've been given so we've just got to get on with it and be as positive as we can," Channon told At The Races.
"The filly is in great form and I just hope nothing else goes wrong. She's been a bit unlucky up to now.
"If you look at the big fillies' race last year that Found won (Marcel Boussac) she got no kind of run. She ran well first time out this year, but then got knocked at the elbow in Ireland and ended up being beaten the same distance by Found as she was in France.
"I'm sure she'll come right one day. At the moment she just needs that little bit of luck in running.
"We did consider going for the Oaks (at Epsom), but I think it was probably too big a step from a mile."
In what looks a competitive race over an extended mile and a quarter, Mikel Delzangles has a leading fancy in Little Nightingale while Henri Devin has an unexposed contender in Physiocrate, winner of her only two starts, both at Chantilly.
Criquette Head-Maarek, successful with the mighty Treve in 2013, relies on Fontanelice, who was fourth to Ervedya in the French 1000 Guineas five weeks ago.
