"I don't want to pinch myself and disturb today".
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All Kerry Parker's spring carnival dreams came true on Saturday when Think It Over lumped every bit of 61 kilograms to dominate the Rosehill Gold Cup.
Forget the Cox Plate, the initial grand final plan ruined by COVID restrictions, the gelding would instead sweep the Chelmsford and Hill Stakes and the Craven Plate, before collecting the life-changing $1 million bonus.
He's chased home superstars in Verry Elleegant and Addeybb in the past, but this was his stage and Think It Over owned the moment.
"No doubt I will tomorrow, I don't want to pinch myself and disturb today, just in case" Parker told Seven Network after the race.
"To think he could even aim up for something like that and keep doing what he's doing, it's just sensational.
"He gets around the stable (like a superstar), he's enjoying it as much as we are, he's loved every moment of this preparation and it was super to get the job done.
"It would have made it hard, for none of us to go with him if he'd gone to Melbourne or turn up at Moonee Valley and have a go at a Cox Plate when you've never seen Moonee Valley, the option to stay here in your back yard, why interrupt anything?"
Think It Over won the Craven Plate last year, then ran 11th in last year's Rosehill Gold Cup, but was third behind Archedemus in the second running of the $1 million The Gong on his home track at Kambla Grange.
"That was brilliant, we were on at 40s that day," Parker said with a smile.
And there could yet be more to come, if the horse pulls up well.
"I think we just get over today, there is an option if we go to Melbourne for the Mackinnon next Saturday, but we'll just see what that takes out of him before we make any more decisions," Parker said.
Jockey Nash Rawiller has formed a super partnership with Think It Over this campaign and was thrilled to have finished the job and delivered Parker the big pay day.
"just exciting to be involved, they're such a great group of people and such a champion horse," Rawiller said.
"He just continually turns up every week and you don't see a better effort than that, you've got to pinch yourself in what you'd do in the autumn, but you've got to enjoy it while you can."
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