MV On Track 2018

ON TRACK MAGAZINE 27 Cummings told Boss he believed So You Think was a special colt and could turn out to be one of the best horses he’d trained. “At that stage I didn’t know much about him, but after I rode him in a trial he struck me as one of the most impressive horses I’d seen, and been on, in my life,” Boss said. So You Think won the Cox Plate, and won it again in 2010, before going on to win multiple races overseas, including the Group 1 Prince Of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot. Boss’ third Cox Plate winner, the New Zealand four year-old Ocean Park, wasn’t a champion, but the jockey says you’d be hard pressed to find a horse with a bigger will to win. “If there was a horse in front of him he just had to beat it,” he said. Jump onto YouTube and watch him run down Black Caviar’s half-brother All Too Hard in the 2012 Cox Plate, and you’ll see what Boss is talking about. Although he’s now based in Singapore, Boss would jump at any opportunity to come back and ride at The Valley. “It’s my favourite track,” he said. “But it’s more than that, it is a thinking jockey’s track, which is why you see the good jockeys – Oliver, Dunn and those blokes – ride winners there consistently.” Boss says at most other tracks there’s usually a chance to switch off in a race, but not at The Valley. “You can go from the penthouse to the outhouse in a couple of strides. Your senses always have to be on high alert; you’re always waiting for something to happen. And it will happen.” “But I love it.” Glen Boss is the Moonee Valley Racing Club’s 2018 Kingston Town Award Winner.