So You Think wins Cox Plate

Bart Cummings has done it again.
The maestro trainer won his third Group One race in as many weeks when
three-year-old So You Think led all the way to triumph in Saturday's $3 million Cox
Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley.
His victory followed wins by stablemates Allez Wonder in the Toorak Handicap and
Viewed in last week's Caulfield Cup.
In a surprise move, jockey Glen Boss took So You Think to the front when the colt
began well and he had his rivals off the bit and chasing on the home turn.
Manhattan Rain, the only other three-year-old in the race, settled second and
battled on well to maintain his position while last year's runner-up Zipping came
again after appearing beaten to grab third.
Favourite Whobegotyou was near the rear throughout and never threatened.
Cummings rated So You Think among the best horses he has trained and said he left
tactics to Boss.
"I said (to Boss) `wherever he's happy put him' and now he's happy," Cummings said.
So You Think's Cox Plate victory took Cummings' career tally of Group One wins to
256 and provided him with his fourth success in the race after Taj Rossi, who also
won as a three-year-old in 1973, Saintly (1996) and Dane Ripper (1997).
A jubilant Boss, who wasted hard to ride So You Think at 49.5kg, paid tribute to the
greatest living trainer.
"What about Bart? Unbelievable," Boss said.
"I had to pinch myself at the top of the straight, I just couldn't believe it."
It was Boss' second Cox Plate victory after winning aboard champion Makybe Diva four
years ago.