Gavin Bedggood enjoyed Stakes success at Caulfield on Saturday, but the Cranbourne trainer didn’t leave fully satisfied.

He realised before the meeting began that he’d made the wrong call with dependable gelding Kingswood.

Bedggood scratched the favourite from the Eclipse Stakes, believing the Soft 7 surface would be unsuitable, only for the expected rain to miss and the track upgraded to Soft 6 early in the program.

Even after winning the $200,000 Group 3 Eclipse Stakes with Casino Seventeen, Bedggood was still ruing the decision.

“I’ve felt sick about it all day,” Bedggood said after the win.

“It was a Soft 7 this morning, they run the first race and they upgraded and we’ve had no rain. If the owners were upset at me I wouldn’t blame them either.”

“It was going to be wet and it hasn’t eventuated. That was my blue.”

“I didn’t want to give him a gut-buster with the idea of backing up next Saturday, so I thought we’d reserve him for that.”

Kingswood will now chase redemption in Saturday’s $500,000 Listed Ballarat Cup (2000m).

He is likely to run alongside Casino Seventeen, whose Eclipse win was his first since joining Bedggood and extended his quirky record to 11 wins, 11 seconds and 11 thirds from 55 starts.