Mel Eggleston to race promising filly All Over Bosanova in Brisbane after third straight win

TRAINER Mel Eggleston hopes All Over Bosanova can become the Group 1-winning horse he has never had.

The Mel Eggleston-trained All Over Bosanova wins at the Gold Coast to maintain her unbeaten record. Photo: Grant Peters, Trackside Photography.

TRAINER  Mel Eggleston hopes All Over Bosanova can become the Group 1-winning horse he has never had.

Jockey Luke Rolls only touched the three-year-old filly on the shoulder with the whip as she strolled home to win by five lengths in the Class 2 Handicap (1100m) on the Gold Coast on Saturday.

It took All Over Bosa­nova’s record to three wins from as many starts across the Gold Coast and Ipswich.

Eggleston said he would race All Over Bosanova in Brisbane where a win would convince the Gold Coast trainer to aim the filly at the Queensland winter carnival.

“I think she could win in Brisbane,” Eggleston said.

“If she measures up to Brisbane we will probably put her away and give her a little break for a few weeks before aiming at something like a fillies­ race over the winter carnival.

“Everybody wants that black type with their fillies and that’s what we will be aiming at with her.

“If Luke pulled the stick on her she probably would have won by six or seven lengths easily and if she is going to go anywhere she has to beat those sorts of horses like that.”

Eggleston said All Over Bosanova was the best horse in his stable and the best he has had since Love And Money, who counted the Listed Tattersalls Fillies & Mares Quality at Eagle Farm in 2006 as one of seven wins in a career cut short by injury.

Jockey Luke Rolls wins on Nakanai at the Gold Coast. Photo: Grant Peters, Trackside Photography.

And Eggleston hopes All Over Bosanova can become the best of his career.

“I’ve had a lot of good horses but I’ve never had that spectacular Group 1 horse that I’d love to get – I hope she is it,” Eggleston said.

“She has got gears which most good horses have. They have a turn of foot when you let them down and they can just sprint. She can do it off a high speed too.

“She can lead in her races and sprint which is a dream horse to train because they make their own luck. They go to the front … and they can quicken off that high speed – they are very rare.”

All Over Bosanova’s victory was the second of two wins in which Eggleston and Rolls combined on Saturday with. Nakanai won the BenchMark 75 Handicap (1200m) just a race earlier.

The eight-year-old gelding, bought for $3400 at the 2010 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, was sixth at the 800m mark but went on to win by two lengths to take his total prizemoney to $138,490.

“He has been in work for three years – he hasn’t left the stables,” Eggleston said.

“We take him up the beach a lot and he just loves that type of life. I was really confident going into the race and I couldn’t believe the price ($7.50).

“But I was confident with him, too, because he had a small field which he likes, he had the wet track which he likes and as it turned out plenty of speed on so it wasn’t a shock to see him win.”