Victorian trainer Gavin Bedggood admits the abandonment of last Saturday’s Randwick program hit particularly hard, with his charge St Lawrence missing his intended run in the Premier’s Cup Prelude (1800m).

A torrential downpour on Friday night forced officials to scrap most of the meeting, although the Prelude has been salvaged and will now be run on Wednesday at Kensington with the same distance and reinstated acceptances.

Bedggood said the gelding was primed to run on a heavy surface, with only seven starters set for Saturday’s edition before the meeting was called off.

Six scratchings have already been lodged for the midweek version, though the field remains two over the 12-horse safety limit.

“He had done all his work around running on Saturday, but it is what it is and he’s already up there,” Bedggood said.

“We’re not going to get wet ground down here, I don’t think.

“So, we’ll take our chance and the move to the Kensington might discourage a few of those better horses from stepping out and they might look for another option.”

Bedggood felt the race was open even before the rescheduling.

“After all the scratchings, the field fell away to a field of seven, and I thought he was a great chance, but it was a very hard race to read.

“There was a lot of horses that are early in their campaigns, a lot of horses from the same stable, so it was a bit of a raffle.

“I’m not all over the form up there, so, for me, it was a hard race to read.”

It will be the trainer’s first runner on the Kensington track.

“I’ve never seen the Kensington track,” he said.

“I know it’s an assistance to be up near the speed, so we’ll see what it (the race) looks like once the final scratchings come through and what sort of field we are left with.”