Cups king makes it a family firm Partnership: Bart Cummings will team up with grandson James. Legendary trainer Bart Cummings will form a training partnership with grandson James before the new racing season. The 12-time Melbourne Cup winner said he wants his grandson to take the next step in his career and take more responsibility for the running of the stable. "I have been at this for more than 60 years and it is [the] right time for someone else to join me," Cummings said. I think I have found the right man. I'm very proud it is James, my grandson. We are working out the details and it will be done in the next month or so. It will happen eventually. The partnership will continue one of the three great dynasties of Australian racing, Cummings, Hayes and Smith. The generational change in the Hayes and Smith yards came earlier, with Peter then David Hayes taking over at Lindsay Park from Colin Hayes. At Tulloch Lodge, Tommy Smith passed the control of Sydney's most successful stable to daughter Gai Waterhouse. Cummings has drawn strength from John Hawkes' success with sons Michael and Wayne. "I have never seen Hawkesy happier," Bart said. I hope it works for me. James Cummings has worked as the 85-year-old's foreman in Sydney since 2009 and as part of the licensing process leading trainers have supplied references for JA Cummings to join JB in the racebooks. James Alexander Cummings will be a fourth generation trainer after his great grandfather Jim, who prepared 1950 Melbourne Cup winner Comic Court, Bart and his father Anthony, who has built an impressive record of group-1 winners. He has proved himself capable of running the stable under the watchful eye of his grandfather but as Bart put it, "it's time to get more experience." "He needs to have the strength to watch over staff and the balls to tell them when they are doing something and fix it so it doesn't happen again," Bart said. He knows the systems but there is more to the job than that and he will learn it. James will take on more responsibility. The Cummings stable continues to produce topliners, with Norzita, who won the Flight and Vinery Stud stakes, the latest on a list of 265 group 1 winners. James Cummings has impressed good judges and could bring another generation of clients to the stable. Cummings' magical touch was on show as Precedence won the Premier's Cup at Doomben on Saturday and he heads to the Brisbane Cup in a couple of weeks. "He will go to the Brisbane Cup next, the last time I won that was when they dropped it back from two miles to a mile and a half, with Viewed," Cummings said. He went on to win the Melbourne Cup.