Bound For Love could be bound for break if the mare doesn’t race well on the Gold Coast

TOBY Edmonds believes Bound For Love has a lot of racing left in her but says her career could end today as the owners weigh up whether to retire the mare.

Jeff Lloyd extends his lead in the Brisbane metropolitan jockeys' premiership aboard Bound For Love at the Gold Coast on July 20.

TOBY Edmonds believes Bound For Love has a lot of racing left in her but says her career could end today as the owners weigh up whether to retire her.

The five-year-old will resume today at the Gold Coast in the Class 5 Handicap (1300m) looking to add to a 13-run career that has brought five wins so far.

A strong performance could set Bound For Love back on the path to metropolitan racing while a disappointing run could result in owners Segenhoe Thoroughbreds Australia sending her off for breeding.

“We are putting it on her to see how she has come back and if she fails we will probably send her off to stud,” Edmonds said.

“She hasn’t had too many starts to be truthful but she has enough racing left in her.

“We want to give her a bit of fitness and a nice race to kick her off and hopefully she runs well and we can send her back to town.”

Bound For Love’s third campaign earlier this year ended at two runs after struggling through a soft Eagle Farm track.

“She has come back good after a bit of a freshen up,” Edmonds said.

“She got beaten by a long way at Eagle Farm on that bad track up there one day so we freshened her right up.

“She came out slowly up there, dropped back and copped a heap of kickback from it so we gave her a bit of a let up and brought her back for this.”

Edmonds will have four runners at the Gold Coast with Bound For Love, Murtasteel and Sugarparma all first-up while Hanover Square will come in off a fifth-place finish at the Gold Coast earlier this month.

Jockey Darryl McLellan will ride all of Edmonds’ horses at the Gold Coast in what will be his first time racing in more than five years.

McLellan, 45, hasn’t raced since being injured in a fall at Newcastle at the end of 2011.