Cox Plate favourite So You Think will miss Saturday's Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes - a race named in honour of his owner - with trainer Bart Cummings opting to wait another week.So You Think will run in the Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield on September 18 then go to the Yalumba Stakes (2000m) at the same track three weeks later before the Cox Plate on October 23.However, he will get another look at Moonee Valley before his Cox Plate defence when he gallops at the track on Tuesday.With Faint Per

Cox Plate favourite So You Think will miss Saturday's Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes - a race named in honour of his owner - with trainer Bart Cummings opting to wait another week.

So You Think will run in the Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield on September 18 then go to the Yalumba Stakes (2000m) at the same track three weeks later before the Cox Plate on October 23.

However, he will get another look at Moonee Valley before his Cox Plate defence when he gallops at the track on Tuesday.

With Faint Perfume to tackle her own sex in the Stocks Stakes, Dato Tan will be relying on Brightnight and Precedence in his own race.

"Bart decided the programming of the Dato Tan didn't fit in for So You Think heading to the Cox Plate," Dato Tan's racing manager Duncan Ramage said.

"He thought the better way to go was the Underwood, Yalumba and then the Cox Plate.

"There are no concerns going from the 1400 metres of the Memsie to the 1800 of the Underwood.

"He did a similar thing last year when he went from the Ming Dynasty to the Gloaming."

So You Think firmed into clear-cut Cox Plate favouritism at $4 with his decisive Memsie victory.

Cummings is still recovering from a fractured pelvis suffered in a fall at his home last week and missed Sunday's Australian Racehorse of the Year awards.

So You Think and Faint Perfume were named the country's best three-year-olds for their respective sexes and Cummings was honoured as last season's leading Group One trainer.

So You Think underwent throat surgery earlier this year and missed the autumn but returned with a vengeance to beat Whobegotyou and Shoot Out in the Memsie Stakes last Saturday week.

Brightnight was an eye-catching seventh in the Memsie, firming to $26 for the Melbourne Cup although he has only won a midweek maiden in Sydney.

"He is being forced to run in the weight-for-age races because he can't get a run in the handicaps," Ramage said.

With a rating of 68, Brightnight is well down the order of the 54 horses entered for the 1500m handicap on the Moonee Valley program.