"After he ran in the Group 3 in Sydney, there was nothing for him down here, so we had to step him back into a benchmark race," Begg said.
"He drops a bit in weight, but originally, I thought he would be on the limit, but they didn't have a high enough benchmark horse, so he got a couple of kilos more that I first thought.
"That's probably indicative of the quality of the race that he's two kilos over the limit and it shows the better ones have been Adelaide or are up in Queensland.
"It's getting hard to get a run in the good races up in Queensland where you need a 100 plus benchmark to get into them."
Begg said there was no intention to head north with De Bergerac, preferring to stay in Melbourne to contest the Santa Ana Lane Sprint Series of which Saturday's race is the third of eight heats.
The $175,000 final at Listed level will be run on July 4 while Begg said with fine weather for the remainder of the week was welcome news.
"He'll stay down here and run through the sprint series and after that he can have a bit of a freshen up and we'll look at something in the early part of the spring," Begg said.
"Even though he's won on soft ground and ran second on that awful track during Cup week, I feel he's much better on top of the ground and it should be a perfect surface come Saturday.
"The worry may be a month between runs, but you have to factor in the travel component coming back from Sydney, it's like having another run, but we're pretty happy with him."
