THE awesome display of So You Think in the Underwood Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday was enough for Lloyd Williams to plan a Melbourne Cup campaign for his rising star Linton around the Bart Cummings-trained four-year-old, reports The Age.It says: Linton is due to have his second run for the campaign in Friday night's JRA Cup at Moonee Valley, but any thoughts owner Williams had of testing him at weight-for-age level were doused with So You Think's dominant win.''I don't think we'll worry about

THE awesome display of So You Think in the Underwood Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday was enough for Lloyd Williams to plan a Melbourne Cup campaign for his rising star Linton around the Bart Cummings-trained four-year-old, reports The Age.

It says: Linton is due to have his second run for the campaign in Friday night's JRA Cup at Moonee Valley, but any thoughts owner Williams had of testing him at weight-for-age level were doused with So You Think's dominant win.

''I don't think we'll worry about taking him [So You Think] on,'' Williams said yesterday. ''He was very impressive and in set-weight races he certainly is superior to anything I can offer, anyway. Linton will stick to handicaps, I think, as I can't see any purpose chasing around So You Think or Whobegotyou, for that matter, in weight-for-age races.''

Williams said Linton would get his chance to stake his claim for races such as the Melbourne Cup when he ran on Friday night. ''He's in very good order and he'll only get 53.5 kilograms in the race and so if he wants to be a serious horse, he must win,'' he said.

If he wins the JRA Cup and gains a cups penalty of one kilogram or more, he could squeeze into the field for the Caulfield Cup on October 16 but Linton could also attempt to gain his distance qualification for the Melbourne Cup through the group 2 Herbert Power Stakes at Caulfield a week earlier.