As many Australians stayed up to watch So You Think win in Ireland in the early hours of Monday morning, Bart Cummings slept soundly, sure of the result.The former trainer of the dual Cox Plate winner said it wasn't worth a late night given the strength of the opposition in the Tattersalls Gold Cup.In high spirits after the win of Procyon at Randwick on Tuesday, Cummings was at his mischievous best."I saw the race this morning," Cummings said."I wouldn't stay up at night for it. The racing over

As many Australians stayed up to watch So You Think win in Ireland in the early hours of Monday morning, Bart Cummings slept soundly, sure of the result.

The former trainer of the dual Cox Plate winner said it wasn't worth a late night given the strength of the opposition in the Tattersalls Gold Cup.

In high spirits after the win of Procyon at Randwick on Tuesday, Cummings was at his mischievous best.

"I saw the race this morning," Cummings said.

"I wouldn't stay up at night for it. The racing over there isn't worth two bob.

"He met better horses than that here.

"It might be different when he gets to France, there is better racing there because they don't have bookmakers."

Cummings has long been an opponent of corporate bookmakers who he says are bleeding the industry.

"If the sheikh (Sheikh Mohammed) left England, racing would be closed down in a month," he said.

"When I was last over there I think there were 18 bookmakers in parliament."

That issue aside, many pundits agree the strength of So You Think's opposition was hardly a true test.

The Racing Post ratings have yet to put So You Think beyond the 128 he received in Australia and agreed with Cummings his opposition was not of a high calibre.

But the Racing Post also queried the quality of the opposition he met in his home country where So You Think had no peer over middle distances.

"His two Irish starts have shed little new light on his potential," the Racing Post said.

"Both races were set up by Ballydoyle pacemakers with So You Think placed just behind them.

"The bare form of both races was on a par with his best figures from Australia, but, though he still hasn't been forced to show how good he is, by continuing to win, and win well, he leaves the distinct impression that he would do the same to top-class horses and he looks poised for a huge effort later in the campaign."

It is no secret Cummings was upset to lose the horse in a deal done between owner Dato Tan Chin Nam and Coolmore during the spring carnival when the legendary trainer was not in the best of health.

Those wounds have healed and Cummings has moved on but he would have welcomed the opportunity to train him for a third Cox Plate.

Asked how he thought the horse looked even against inferior opposition, Cummings was succinct.

"Not as good as he did here."