Another impressive spring win from reigning champion So You Think has seen the four-year-old shorten even further in the 2010 Cox Plate betting.
The Bart Cummings-trained So You Think ran rings around his rivals in the Group 1 Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield on Saturday with Sportsbet slashing his odds to win back-to-back Cox Plates.
So You Think is now at $2.60 to win the $3 million Cox Plate on October 23 and become the first horse since Northerly in 2001-02 to win successive Cox Plates.
On Saturday So You Think beat stablemate Dariana in the Underwood Stakes, with Metal Bender in third giving the High Chaparral four-year-old an unbeaten spring record after his earlier success in the Memsie Stakes.
The victory has sent a serious warning to the other horses heading towards the Cox Plate this year.
Rosehill-based trainer Chris Waller has said Saturday’s third placegetter Metal Bender is now more likely to target the 2010 Caulfield Cup on October 9 instead of braving another rematch with So You Think in the Cox Plate.
“He (So You Think) is just a superstar. It was frightening what he did to them,” Waller said in response to the thrashing So You Think gave his rivals in the Underwood.
The hopes of fellow Underwood Stakes runner Heart Of Dreams of making the 2010 Cox Plate Field have also been dashed after the Mick Price-trained gelding finished a well beaten seventh.
Other Cox Plate entries that ran in Saturday’s showdown included Zavite and Red Ruler.
The Anthony Cummings-trained Zavite was a $51 chance and ran an eye-catching fourth while the next best performer was the sixth placed Red Ruler.
So You Think has also risen in the 2010 Melbourne Cup betting moving up to third favourite at $13 through Sportsbet.
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