Are punters really shunning Cox Plate marvel So You Think in the Melbourne Cup? Well, this is the story being peddled around midweek. Sportsbetting has allowed the Bart Cummings trained superstar to move to second slot behind Shocking in the betting. But this could all change, of course, after Sat's Mackinnon Stakes in which the pair will clash in one of racing's greatest battles. The Sydney Morning Herald reports Sportsbetting boss Hamish Davidson as saying: ''We were top odds in Australia at $

Are punters really shunning Cox Plate marvel So You Think in the Melbourne Cup? Well, this is the story being peddled around midweek. Sportsbetting has allowed the Bart Cummings trained superstar to move to second slot behind Shocking in the betting. But this could all change, of course, after Sat's Mackinnon Stakes in which the pair will clash in one of racing's greatest battles. The Sydney Morning Herald reports Sportsbetting boss Hamish Davidson as saying: ''We were top odds in Australia at $5.50 and anyone who wants to back it is quite welcome...He is a freak but he's there to be beaten.'' Sportingbet let SYT out to $5 yesterday and tightened Shocking to $4.50. Sportingbet is anxious to claw back the huge losses from the horse's Cox Plate win. Another agency, Betstar, has Shocking at $4.40 and So You Think out to $5.50. SYT burned most bookies.Sportingbet's high-profile spruiker Michael Sullivan says: 'He has cost us millions...We have taken him on six times and he has beaten us every time. But we bookies are slow learners and at the end of the day there is a big query on him at the trip...You never want to be potting one of Bart Cummings's in a Melbourne Cup but this horse has never been past 2000 metres.'