The Mark Kavanagh stable is using a bit of insurance by applying blinkers to Whobegotyou for the first time in Saturday's Dato Tan Chin Man Stakes at Moonee Valley.The Cox Plate favourite has been getting back and powering home in his races but hasn't won in eight starts since his victory in the AAMI Vase (2040m) on Cox Plate Day last year.The blinkers going on may help Whobegotyou like it did for Maldivian who raced in blinkers for the first time when he won the 2008 Cox Plate.The pace is expec
The Mark Kavanagh stable is using a bit of insurance by applying blinkers to Whobegotyou for the first time in Saturday's Dato Tan Chin Man Stakes at Moonee Valley.
The Cox Plate favourite has been getting back and powering home in his races but hasn't won in eight starts since his victory in the AAMI Vase (2040m) on Cox Plate Day last year.
The blinkers going on may help Whobegotyou like it did for Maldivian who raced in blinkers for the first time when he won the 2008 Cox Plate.
The pace is expected to be put on by well performed Singapore mare Jolie's Shinju who is in Australia for the Cox Plate and is making her Australian debut in the 1600m event.
"It's just something different we are trying and this race will give us a guide as to where the horse is at," Kavanagh's son and Melbourne stable foreman Levi Kavanagh said.
"Jolie's Shinju goes hard and she might keep going."
A dual Group One winner in Singapore, the front running Jolie's Shinju will be after her fifth successive win in the Group Two weight-for-age feature in which she will jump from the outside barrier.
Her regular jockey Ronnie Stewart rode the five-year-old in her first look at the Valley where she had a leisurely workout on Tuesday and again at Sandown on Wednesday where she went over 1000m, running her last 600m in 36 seconds.
The Hideyuki Takaoka-trained mare, who has reported done well since arriving at the Sandown Quarantine Centre three weeks ago.
Jolie's Shinju's has won nine and been placed in six of 19 starts in Singapore but hadn't raced beyond 1200m until three starts back.
She won the Group One Patron's Bowl (1400m) at Kranji on May 31 before taking out the Group Two Derby Trial (1600m) on June 21 and the Group One Singapore Derby (2000m) on July 12, her last couple by five lengths and in quick time.
The Kavanagh stable is also wary of the Greg Eurell-trained Mic Mac who has won seven of his eight starts including his Memsie Stakes (1400m) victory at Caulfield on August 29 when he led and defeated runner-up Whobegotyou by 1-1/4 lengths.
"Mic Mac is going to be hard to beat," Kavanagh said.
Whobegotyou's stablemate Sea Battle has been scratched from the Dato Tan Chin Nam.
"He has a virus, it's not a major thing," Kavanagh said.
Unbeaten in three starts at the Valley, Whobegotyou is a $2.50 favourite ahead of Mic Mac at $3.70, 2007 Cox Plate winner El Segundo at $3.80, Jolie's Shinju at $9 with last year's Cox Plate runner-up Zipping next best at $21.