Guineas winner to miss Plate

Trainer Mark Kavanagh is adamant impressive Caulfield Guineas winner Whobegotyou will skip the Cox Plate in a fortnight's time.

Whobegotyou won Saturday's feature race by three and a quarter lengths, running the 1600m more than half a second quicker than Toorak Handicap winner Alamosa.

Kavanagh is wary not to overtax Whobegotyou too early in his career as he believes the gelding can blossom into a Cups horse next spring and will resist the temptation to run him in Australasia's weight-for-age championship.

That did not stop bookmakers from installing Whobegotyou, who would carry only a featherweight 49.5kg in the Cox Plate, a $5 third favourite behind Princess Coup and Weekend Hussler.

Should Kavanagh change his mind, which seems highly unlikely, and decide to press ahead to the Cox Plate, connections will have to fork out a $130,000 late entry fee.

"We can't jump the gun. If you get a horse like this and if you look them they look after you," he said.

"The horse is a gelding. Wouldn't you be concerned that you risk gutting him?"

"That's probably why you guys are working at the newspapers and I'm training horses."

"We've got to bring them back each year. We don't want to have these horses being one-season wonders or whatever."

Whobegotyou will have his next start in the G2 AAMI Vase (2040m) on Cox Plate before having his final run for the spring in the VRC Derby (2500m) a week later.

"He'll have two more runs, (and then be) cotton-wooled. He's got the ability and the breeding to make into Cups horse in the next couple of years and we don't want to gut him first," said Kavanagh.

"We've got a few years in front of us and a bit of fun. We want to keep having fun."