Old timer Zipping has shown he is as good as ever and will have a fourth crack at the $3 million Cox Plate following his upset victory in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.Zipping gave owner Lloyd Williams and jockey Nick Hall back-to back wins in the 2000m feature with Efficient scoring an upset win at $26 last year to give Hall his first Group One win.Williams' son Nick confirmed the nine-year-old's main aim this spring was the Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on October 23, a race in which

Old timer Zipping has shown he is as good as ever and will have a fourth crack at the $3 million Cox Plate following his upset victory in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.

Zipping gave owner Lloyd Williams and jockey Nick Hall back-to back wins in the 2000m feature with Efficient scoring an upset win at $26 last year to give Hall his first Group One win.

Williams' son Nick confirmed the nine-year-old's main aim this spring was the Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on October 23, a race in which he has run second and third in the past two years.

In 2007 he finished eighth to el Segundo.

"Dad's been very keen to give the horse the ideal preparation for that race and see if he can do a Fields Of Omagh," Williams said.

Fields Of Omagh was retired after winning the second of two Cox Plates as a nine-year-old in 2006 at his fifth successive start in the race which he had won in 2003, finished second in 2004 and third in 2005.

"He's a marvel. He really is. He's won two Group Ones now - one when he's eight and one when he's nine. And he's not finished yet," Williams said.

"Maybe he's showing us that we're all racing them too young. We've got to let them mature.

"The Cox Plate is his aim but there's a horse (So You Think) that wears those famous Dato Tan Chin Nam colours that might have a thing to say about that race, but he can certainly complete with all the others."

Despite landing his first Group One success in the Australian Cup (2000m) in March, Zipping was sent out at $17 and edged out reigning Melbourne Cup winner Shocking ($5.50) by a long head with Shoot Out ($5 fav) a half-head away third.

If successful in the Cox Plate, the Danehill gelding would become the sixth horse to complete the Turnbull-Cox Plate double since 1971, the last being Makybe Diva in 2005.

Hall, Lloyd Williams godson, said there was nothing better than winning Group races for the Williams family.

"Its such a thrill," he said.

"He drew a good gate today and it wasn't necessarily to his advantage. He has to get clear running and be up and going by the turn otherwise he can find trouble.

"He was strongest on the line. He was never going to get beaten.

"He doesn't know he's nine. I'm looking forward to being on board him no matter what he goes to."

Shocking was gallant in being beaten for the first time in five starts at Flemington, as was Shoot Out who pleased his trainer John Wallace.

"I'm very happy and it's on to the Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup," Wallace said.

Metal Bender put in an excellent Caulfield Cup trial by finishing fourth with Typhoon Tracy running fifth, Faint Perfume sixth and import Buccellati running an improved race for seventh.