A BROKEN pelvis may slow down Bart Cummings this spring but the 82-year-old's horses continue to dominate the feature race markets after the release of weights for the Caulfield and Melbourne cups yesterday, reports The Age.It says: Cummings's son, Anthony, said yesterday his father would be in hospital for another week and might have to use a walking aid during his recovery, but otherwise little had changed with the cups master.''He's fine, he's still giving out the orders,'' Cummings said from

A BROKEN pelvis may slow down Bart Cummings this spring but the 82-year-old's horses continue to dominate the feature race markets after the release of weights for the Caulfield and Melbourne cups yesterday, reports The Age.

It says: Cummings's son, Anthony, said yesterday his father would be in hospital for another week and might have to use a walking aid during his recovery, but otherwise little had changed with the cups master.

''He's fine, he's still giving out the orders,'' Cummings said from Warwick Farm where his father unearthed a likely Caulfield Guineas type, Shamardal colt Goldstone. ''He looked one way and stepped another and tripped over a step [at home]. When he went down he fractured his pelvis. It's not a bad fracture. He might just need a frame to help him get around for a while.''

Bart Cummings only recently recovered from a bout of pneumonia which forced him to miss the majority of the autumn and winter carnivals.

As usual yesterday, Cummings's horses were the focus of much attention with the release of the handicaps for the cups. Two of his best four-year-olds, So You Think and Faint Perfume, were yesterday asked to create some history of their own this spring. VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume will have to prove herself the equal of Cummings's former star Leilani if she is to carry 52 kilograms and win the Caulfield Cup. Leilani in 1974 and How Now (1976) are the only four-year-old mares to carry such a weight and win