Mel Eggleston regrets running All Over Bosanova in Gold Coast Guineas but pushing ahead

MEL Eggleston regrets starting All Over Bosanova from a wide barrier in the Gold Coast Guineas but he will regroup and still aim the filly at two upcoming Group 1 races.

All Over Bosanova wins at Eagle Farm at her fourth start. Photo: Trackside Photography.

MEL Eggleston regrets starting All Over Bosanova from a wide barrier in the Gold Coast Guineas but he will regroup and still aim the filly at two upcoming Group 1 races.

The Gold Coast trainer was cursing himself after watching his three-year-old filly forced to run four wide from barrier 13 in the 14-horse field on Saturday.

All Over Bosanova finished 12th but was only 3.2 lengths behind the victor Savanna Amour, a Group 2 winner in Melbourne, in the 1200m race.

“She put in a good dig, she had a good go in the straight and she kept trying,” Eggleston said.

“In hindsight I wish I didn’t run her, or rode her differently.

“(Jockey) Luke Rolls wanted to ride her back and I didn’t, that’s the difference.

“I’m more bit disappointed for her that I ran her. I just wish I had of scratched her and run her in something else but what do you do.

“We rolled the dice that’s how it went.

“If she happens to draw bad again in a race like that I won’t be running her.

“We just have to pick our races and we can’t keep doing that to them.

“As a trainer I have to look more at the stats that say you can’t win from

those barriers.”

The run was a mirror image of All Over Bosanova’s previous start in the Listed Mick Dittman Plate (1050m) at Doomben where she raced wide before finishing three lengths behind Tiyatrolani.

“I’m no wiser to what distance I think she will get to – that’s probably one of the disappointing things about it,” Eggleston said.

He hopes the filly, who won her first four starts from 800m to 1200m before the Dittman Plate, can secure a place in the Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) and Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) next month.

“I’m still not deviating from my course but obviously now it’s going to be a lot harder because you need prizemoney,” he said.

“A little bit of bad luck in running and barriers have probably cost her places and prizemoney to get into those races. It’s now in the lap of the gods.”