Bart Cummings and Dato Tan Chin Nam showed there was alway something new to celebrate when they added their first AJC Australian Derby to their many other great wins which include four Melbourne Cups.With another veteran Jim Cassidy aboard, Roman Emperor claimed Saturday's 2400m Classic at Randwick in a thriller by a short neck from New Zealander Harris Tweed with Predatory Pricer just a nose away third.For Cummings, it was Group One win number 252 and his first in Sydney for almost a decade.Aus

Bart Cummings and Dato Tan Chin Nam showed there was alway something new to celebrate when they added their first AJC Australian Derby to their many other great wins which include four Melbourne Cups.

With another veteran Jim Cassidy aboard, Roman Emperor claimed Saturday's 2400m Classic at Randwick in a thriller by a short neck from New Zealander Harris Tweed with Predatory Pricer just a nose away third.

For Cummings, it was Group One win number 252 and his first in Sydney for almost a decade.

Australia's greatest living trainer and Cassidy went their separate ways almost 20 years ago but the jockey was determined to make the most of his recall to the camp.

He took Roman Emperor ($15) up to the speed early and held his position until after the top of the rise where he gave him more rein and the colt lengthened stride.

Harris Tweed ($9) came along the inside and Predatory Pricer ($17) got out late after being blocked for a run but Cassidy was at his best in the rush to the line.

"To win a Group One race for Bart Cummings is the most satisfying thing in my career," Cassidy said.

"I won a Group One race last week and I told him on Wednesday I was the man to break his drought in Sydney."

Cummings said it was "nice" to win another Derby, especially in Sydney.

"It's nice to share it with the locals, we have given too much to the Victorians," he said.

"This is a nice horse, I always thought he was a nice horse and he just needed the distance.

"He is the right type of horse to go on, hopefully to the Melbourne Cup but maybe the Queen Elizabeth first.

"We look at everything."

Dato Tan said he was more than thrilled.

"This is my first Derby, I came so close with Danendri who won the Oaks," he said.

"I have waited a long time."

Danendri finished a half-head second to Ebony Grosve in the 1997 Derby.

Sydney Turf Club director Wilf Mula is also a part-owner and provided Cassidy with his last winner for the stable before Saturday when Mulaman won at Warwick Farm in June 2006.

Cummings and Dato Tan celebrated their most recent Melbourne Cup with Viewed in 2008 with their others Saintly in 1996 and Think Big in 1974 and 1975.

For trainer Bjorn Baker it was a case of the one that just got away after he and his father won last year with Nom Du Jeu.

"We've got to be happy, he ran a great race," Baker said of Harris Tweed.

"It just wasn't to be but it was a huge result for Montjeu."

The sire of the winner and runner-up, Montjeu is now a permanent resident of Coolmore Ireland.

He served four seasons in the southern hemisphere before Coolmore deemed him too valuable to shuttle again and had five runners in the Derby from his last crop.

Of those five, three were geldings with Roman Emperor and Harris Tweed the only colts.

"Some people don't like the Montjeus because they think they are a bit highly strung," Cummings said.

"He went back to Europe because there was only me and the New Zealanders buying them.

"I certainly like them, you just need patience.

"As I've always said, patience is the cheapest thing in racing - and the least used."