SO YOU THINK DEFIES IMMATURITY TO WIN THE WEIGHT-FOR-AGE CROWN

THE legend of Australian racing, Bart Cummings, pulled off another incredible training triumph when his three-year-old So You Think won the $3 million Tatts Cox Plate, 2040m, at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Cummings wrote another chapter into his amazing Spring Carnival story winning his fourth weight-for-age championship of Australasia when So Youth Think, $14, bolted in from Manhattan Rain, $19, with Zipping, $12, a game third.

“We did it again,” Cummings said after claiming his third Group One success on consecutive Saturdays, this time with the least experienced horse. “You can't buy experience and I've got a bit of that.”

Cummings shared the spoils with jockey Glen Boss who rode a daring race defying planned tactics to take So You Think to the front when he began better than expected. He did cross a shade sharply and that cost him a 10 meeting suspension which ends in time for him to ride on Melbourne Cup day.

“Bart wanted him midfield but he broke brilliantly and I didn’t want to wrestle him,” Boss said. “He’s a colt, you don’t fight them, go with them and keep them happy.”

“What can you say about Bart?” Boss asked. “It’s an honor to ride for a man that is up there with the likes of Don Bradman in this country’s history.”

The curtain had hardly dropped on the latest Cox Plate when So Youth Think was being hailed the new superstar of Australian racing. He broke the record for winning the biggest weight-for-age race in the country in the fewest starts – it was only his fifth.

“It’s unusual to have a horse at this standard so early in his career but I think he has a good future,” Cummings said. “Taj Rossi was the best three-year-old I’ve had but he’s up with the better ones.”

Boss claimed So You Think had the big race won at the half-mile. “I couldn’t believe no one came at me but he just got stronger and stronger. “He’s something very special.”

The win completed the second leg of the big treble for Cummings who won the Caulfield Cup a week earlier with Viewed. That horse in strongly fancied to make it back-to-back Melbourne Cups on Tuesday week.

Favorite Whobegotyou pulled up sore across the back after finishing a battling fifth while Heart of Dreams failed to see out the trip at the torrid pace that was set.