Super Cool as a winner Hot finish: Michael Rodd reacts to Super Cool's win over Fiveandahalfstar in the Australian Cup at Flemington. Star three-year-old Super Cool entered elite company by defeating a field of proven older horses - including 2012 Melbourne Cup winner Green Moon - in the $1 million Australian Cup at Flemington on Saturday. Remarkably, it was another three-year-old that was the closest challenger to Super Cool ($5), with Victoria Derby winner Fiveandahalfstar ($11) beaten by a short head. Only champions of the calibre of Saintly and Dulcify have beaten their elders in this race in the past three decades, and while trainer Mark Kavanagh was not going to put his son of Fasnet Rock in that class yet, he was happy to predict a bright future for a horse that has only had nine starts and gets better with every outing, especially over middle distances. The Cox Plate could be his major target in the spring, but Kavanagh is open to all possibilities. He's a very promising horse. We have always been pretty excited by his chances," Kavanagh said. The boys were pretty keen to have a crack at the Guineas, but I said I don't think so. If you want to get into the futures get into the Australian Cup. We set him for that earlier on, and we are here. Each time that we have put him down he has got better and better and better. His two runs this time have been splendid, but to get a three-year-old to win at weight-for-age against those guys, they were tough guys, full credit to the horse. It was payback of sorts for Super Cool as he was runner-up to Fiveandahalfstar in the Derby but there has been little between them on each occasion they have met. The pair were receiving plenty of weight from the older brigade but they were far superior in a race that was run at a fast pace from the outset thanks to the front-running grey Glass Harmonium, and Mourayan, one of three runners from the Lloyd Williams stable. It was the third of these, the $26 shot Tanby, who finished better than anything to take third place, but he was never a threat to the the two three-year-olds, who had the race to themselves from a long way out. Green Moon, the $3.80 favourite, was fourth. The blistering pace meant that several horses were out of their comfort zone a long way from home and, said Fiveandahalfstar's jockey Glen Boss, the fact that the leaders knocked up as the field straightened didn't help his cause. "He was far from disgraced, my horse's effort was amazing," Boss said. I couldn't believe the speed they were going, I don't know if it was necessary to go that fast, they were never going to be competing once they got into the lane. I was travelling really well, probably too good, I would have liked to have been another three lengths in arrears, but that's how it was. They were stopping that quickly I went past them on the bridle and was exposed a long way from home. This straight is so long. He put in and put in, and the winner had the suck run just off us. Green Moon's rider, Brett Prebble, was another who commented on the pace. The time was 2.00.93 - quick but a long way off Makybe Diva's 1.58.73 record. "The 1400 metres last start [when he ran fourth in the Futurity first-up] took a bit of the sharpness out of him," Prebble said of Green Moon. They ran it along at a decent clip today and dragged him out a bit, he came off the bridle as we were straightening. It was a tough staying test and he's just a big bull. The last 50 metres might have taken its toll on him, it being a fast-run race. He had 60 kilos and the first and second horses had a lot less weight.