Having not raced as a two-year-old Channel made her debut in a maiden race over 2000 metres at Saint-Cloud Racecourse on 30 March 2019. Ridden by Ronan Thomas and starting at odds of 11/1 she finished second of the fourteen runners, beaten half a length by the André Fabre-trained Secret Walk. Pierre-Charles Boudot then took over as her regular jockey and rode her in all of her subsequent races. On 27 April she started odds-on favourite for a maiden over 2200 metres at Lyon Parilly Racecourse and recorded her first victory as she won "easily" by two lengths from Big Death after taking the lead 300 metres from the finish. Three weeks later Channel was stepped up in class for the Prix de la Chapelle-en-Serval over 2100 metres at Chantilly Racecourse and went off the 5.3/1 third choice in an eight-runner field. After being in contention from the start she went to the front 200 metres from the finish and won "very readily" by one and three quarter lengths from Ebony with the favourite Dariyza a head away in third place.
