Grant Peters
Chocante will press on to Saturday week's Gr.2 Hollindale Stakes (1800m) at the Gold Coast despite only beating one runner home in last weekend's Listed Tails Stakes (1600m) at Doomben.
Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh said instructions to jockey Jim Byrne were to ride the Gr.2 Brisbane Cup (2200m) winner back from the start at Doomben so he could be doing his best work late in his fresh-up run.
“We wanted him to get back just so he could hit the line, but he stoked him up from the barrier, went forward and got caught three wide and then had to do extra work coming to the home bend so it wasn't an ideal situation.
“He fell in a hole at the end, but that was to be expected with the work he'd done. He's come through the race well so we'll head on to the Hollindale as planned. I have to be pretty forgiving of the horse with the run he had.”