IT WAS deja vu all over again ... again. Just a week after Viewed gave Bart Cummings his seventh Caulfield Cup, racing's most recognisable figure was back in the winning enclosure when So You Think ran away with yesterday's Cox Plate, reports the Sunday Age.It says: It was a result that encapsulated racing's ability to create new champions on the track while celebrating the characters involved off it.So You Think was the youngest horse in the race, trained by the oldest.While racing writers gras

IT WAS deja vu all over again ... again. Just a week after Viewed gave Bart Cummings his seventh Caulfield Cup, racing's most recognisable figure was back in the winning enclosure when So You Think ran away with yesterday's Cox Plate, reports the Sunday Age.

It says: It was a result that encapsulated racing's ability to create new champions on the track while celebrating the characters involved off it.

So You Think was the youngest horse in the race, trained by the oldest.

While racing writers grasped for new superlatives to describe the veteran and his young charge, Bart was ... well, Bart was being Bart.

"Yes, he's a nice young horse isn't he?" said the octogenarian, when asked about a horse that had blown away the opposition in Australia's top weight-for-age race, giving him his fourth Cox Plate. And when John Brumby sidled over and introduced himself in the post-race melee, Cummings' celebrated humour was back to the fore.

"Oh, yeah," said Bart, "I know you; you're the bloke who runs this joint, aren't you?"

But while Cummings may have initially downplayed the horse's performance, nobody should underestimate that of his trainer.

Only two weeks ago, So You Think was well beaten in the Caulfield Guineas. Then when he wobbled around Moonee Valley's tight turns for the first time in track work on Tuesday, few gave the inexperienced three-year-old much hope against the likes of hot favourite Whobegotyou.