It's cool for Kavanagh Ready to rock 'n' roll: Super Cool frolics in the sand after trackwork on Monday. While Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Mark Kavanagh admits that this year's race is the toughest edition in memory, he maintains he can win again with his longshot Super Cool. Kavanagh said he was genuinely surprised at the depth of stayers engaged in the Cup this year and found it impossible to discard many, or any runners, without some sort of hope of winning Australia's most important race. "In the past, you can sit down and strike out about 10 horses immediately and say to yourself, 'well, they can't win', but I couldn't begin to do that this year as the form is just so strong," he said. And what's even more surprising is that all the camps that have runners in the Cup are very confident they can win the race. They're saying they have what it takes to win. And I still think I can win it too. They are all telling me he [Super Cool] won't run the distance. Well, I think he will. He ran second in a Victoria Derby and that tells you a lot. It's a great form race and he finished behind a very smart young stayer [Fiveandahalfstar]. I'm very happy. Super Cool is at $41 in most markets - a quote that Kavanagh believes doesn't reflect the four-year-old's chances. It is an assessment shared by jockey Corey Brown, who combined with Kavanagh to win the Cup in 2009 with Shocking. Brown, who has been based in Singapore since earlier this year, expects Super Cool to run out the 3200 metres after riding him into fifth place in the Cox Plate, where he said the gelding was left a little flat-footed when the pressure was applied. "He's a nice horse, he's been set for the race and he didn't have to duck and weave to get into the race, so he's had the perfect preparation," Brown said. I've got no doubt that he'll get the two miles. He feels more like a two-miler than a Cox Plate horse. Kav said that he's come on since his last run and I'm really happy to be riding him. Barrier 13, horse 13 and 2013 - sounds all right. While this year's race is being declared one of the best on record, the only ingredient missing is the Cups king, trainer Bart Cummings, the 12-time Cup winner who just failed to get Precedence into the race for the fourth time. But the newly formed partnership of Bart and grandson James Cummings may still have some hope of spring success at Flemington in Cup week if the stayer lines up in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes on the final day on Saturday. Meanwhile, bookmaker Tom Waterhouse will back his mother's Cup favourite, Fiorente, to win $1 million on course at Flemington. Waterhouse flagged his intentions at the Call of the Card on Monday when he asked to get set for that amount from Surebet's Steve McHenry, but had to settle for a bet to win $100,000 at odds of $7.50. "As we discussed yesterday, I will let you on to win $100,000," McHenry said. Waterhouse said he hoped to get $8.50 but expects to have to settle for about $7.50 on track. It's very upsetting. I often laid horses to lose up to $2 million. If these bookies [Surebet, Betstar and Winbet] won't bet you, they should allow more bookmakers in [to the Call of the Card]," he said. At $7, the Gai Waterhouse-trained Fiorente is the only Cup runner under double-figure odds after the Call of the Card betting closed. Betstar's Alan Eskander said he was not surprised by Waterhouse's big betting move. "There are a lot of smoke and mirrors with Tom," he said. On a Cup eve light on for big-betting action, the main move came from an unlikely source. The Peter Moody-trained Ibicenco was backed to win more than $1.5 million and firmed from $101 to $61. Eskander said he was "staggered" by the widespread support from professional punters for the Geelong Cup winner.