SO YOU Think won't win Bart Cummings his 13th Melbourne Cup this spring, but by the time the 150th edition of the great race is run in November, he may well be recognised as one of the master's greatest gallopers following an amazing return to racing at Caulfield yesterday, reports The Sunday Age.It says: Yesterday, Cummings, 82, watched from Sydney as So You Think had his first run for 42 weeks and took the scalps of Australia's best weight-for-age gallopers Whobegotyou, Shoot Out and Typhoon T
SO YOU Think won't win Bart Cummings his 13th Melbourne Cup this spring, but by the time the 150th edition of the great race is run in November, he may well be recognised as one of the master's greatest gallopers following an amazing return to racing at Caulfield yesterday, reports The Sunday Age.
It says: Yesterday, Cummings, 82, watched from Sydney as So You Think had his first run for 42 weeks and took the scalps of Australia's best weight-for-age gallopers Whobegotyou, Shoot Out and Typhoon Tracy in yesterday's Memsie Stakes.
''I've had a few good ones,'' he said. ''He's up with the best of them, to do that first-up on a heavy track. He has come back bigger and stronger horse. He has a great future.''
Jockey Steven Arnold was also singing his praises. ''He's a freak, I think ... it's the best horse I have ridden.''
Last autumn, So You Think underwent a throat operation that threatened his racing career and Cummings said that he carried the condition last spring when he shot to fame with a breathtaking Cox Plate win. ''He won a Cox Plate the way he was. He couldn't be any worse, he can only get better and better.''
So You Think is now the $4.40 favourite to win a second Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on October 23.