Super Cool turns the tables on Fiveandahalfstar in Australian Cup Michael Rodd enjoys the moment as he guides Super Cool to an Australian Cup victory ahead of Glen Boss and Fiveandahalfstar. IN the unspoken language of the training track, jockey Michael Rodd gave trainer Mark Kavanagh the word last Tuesday. After the Australian Cup at Flemington today he did the same again, and added a winning smile. Rodd, Kavanagh and the classy three-year-old Super Cool won the Group I feature with a combination of foresight, patience and courage. And they fancy their chances of doing the same in the spring in the Cox Plate. Rodd said Super Cool had passed on his own message when he worked at Flemington during the week and had lived up to it on raceday. "He worked unbelievable on Tuesday morning, you wouldn't believe what he pulled out because he's normally a really lazy trackworker," Rodd said. When they work that good we don't say too much. Just a nod and a smile. I thought if I could have average luck he would be too good for them. Super Cool's luck proved better than average, and so did he. In a race that pitted a couple of good three-year-olds against a group of proven older horses, the youngsters came out well on top. Super Cool, the runner up in last spring's Victoria Derby to Fiveandahalfstar, turned the tables on his conqueror in that race to win the Australian Cup by a short head. The best of the old-timers was Tanby who ran on well to grab third just ahead of his stablemate, the Melbourne Cup champion Green Moon. To Kavanagh the win was all the evidence he needed to abandon any thoughts of another Derby campaign in Sydney. "He looks like a Cox Plate horse to me," Kavanagh said. The trainer knows what they look like, having won the race with Maldivian in 2008. "He's tough, he's got a turn of foot and I think he's got the class," he said Most of the three-year-olds that have tried to win this race have been beaten. But he was very tough out there today, very tough. Super Cool is the first of his age to win the Australian Cup since Saintly in 1996 who in turn was the first since Dulcify in 1979. While Super Cool is to stay in Melbourne, Fiveandahalfstar will press on to the Rosehill Guineas, BMW and Australian Derby.