The Melbourne Cup will present, in the brilliant So You Think, the hottest favourite in the race's recent history, but only one sure thing.

Yet more rain.

So You Think, the superstar that will prompt the 82 year old trainer Bart Cummings to leave his sick bed tomorrow and travel to Flemington in the hope of winning an amazing 13th Melbourne Cup.

Since the 4 year old's breathtaking victory in the Mackinnon Stakes on Saturday, the question has not been whether So You Think could win the Melbourne Cup, but what could possibly beat it.

The most popular answer is not another horse, but factors such as the extra distance the 3,200 metres of the Melbourne Cup is 1,160 metres further than So You Think has raced before and a bogged track.

Tomorrow’s Melbourne Cup will start at 5pm.


Story by: Dreu Vukailagi