Mark Kavanagh to send star gelding Super Cool to Melbourne Cup

MARK Kavanagh will proceed with a Melbourne Cup start for his four-year-old gelding Super Cool after he finished fifth in the Cox Plate.

MARK Kavanagh will proceed with a Melbourne Cup start for his four-year-old gelding Super Cool after he finished fifth in the Cox Plate.

Kavanagh, who won the race in 2009 With Shocking, said he had always had the Melbourne Cup in mind with Super Cool.

Kavanagh said he was pleased with the horse's fifth in the Cox Plate from an outside barrier last Saturday.

"The two three-year-olds who won the Australian Cup in the past 35 years have been Saintly, who won the Melbourne Cup, and Dulcify, who was going to when he got injured," Kavanagh said.