AUSTRALIA'S glamour galloper So You Think will continue his multimillion-dollar massacre on the nation's biggest bookmakers if he wins today's $6 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington, reports Steve Butler in the Sydney Morning Herald.His report adds: Already reeling from So You Think's spring spree that has extended to five straight wins, leading bookies Tom Waterhouse, BetStar's Alan Eskander and WinBet's Greg Engellener all said victory in the Cup would only worsen the thrashing they have coppe

AUSTRALIA'S glamour galloper So You Think will continue his multimillion-dollar massacre on the nation's biggest bookmakers if he wins today's $6 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington, reports Steve Butler in the Sydney Morning Herald.

His report adds: Already reeling from So You Think's spring spree that has extended to five straight wins, leading bookies Tom Waterhouse, BetStar's Alan Eskander and WinBet's Greg Engellener all said victory in the Cup would only worsen the thrashing they have copped from punters. All said they had already paid out more than $1 million each on the stallion, with Eskander claiming another victory for the son of High Chaparral would be a ''bloodbath'' for bookies.

''There's the length of the Flemington straight between So You Think and our next worst result,'' Eskander said.

A brave Waterhouse set himself up for an almighty financial fall at yesterday's annual Call of the Card at Crown Casino when he refused to budge on his price of $3.40 on So You Think and took almost $200,000 worth of wagers.

The biggest bet of $60,000 came from Adam Sparrow, who recently completed a one-year ban by NSW Racing stewards for improper betting activities. Big Sydney punter Sean Bartholomew also backed So You Think to win $200,000.

Asked what it would mean to him if the four-year-old delivered Bart Cummings his 13th Melbourne Cup in the 150th running of the great race, Waterhouse said: ''You probably won't see me around for a while.''

But while all bookmakers believed punters would continue to rally behind Cummings's dual Cox Plate hero, groundbreaking bookmaker Mark Read believed.