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TRAINER Danny O'Brien is intent on proving Shamus Award is a deserved Cox Plate winner - but it won't be until next autumn.
O'Brien confirmed Shamus Award will go for a spell after becoming one of the most unlikely winners of the Cox Plate in the race's history.
Shamus Award, a maiden going into the Cox Plate, led throughout to beat Happy Trails and Fiorente, becoming the 19th three-year-old to win the race but the first since Savabeel in 2004.
O'Brien said he won't be tempted to back up with Shamus Award in the Victoria Derby at Flemington next Saturday.
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"This was his grand final - we planned his 'prep' around the Caulfield Guineas and the Cox Plate," O'Brien said.
"I'd love him to come back and really confirm he is a deserved winner in the autumn.
"We saw All Too Hard and Pierro come out of the Cox Plate year and backed it up with strong autumns and I hope this colt can do something similar."
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All Too Hard (second) and Pierro (third) were placed behind Ocean Park in the Cox Plate then returned in the autumn to win five Group 1 races between them.
Shamus Award earned $1.8 million prizemoney for his Cox Plate win but is worth considerably more as a stallion prospect now.
Bred on sprinting lines, Shamus Award is by leading sire Snitzel out of a Success Express mare Sunset Express and some breeding experts now value the colt between $8-$10 million.
O'Brien said he always believed Shamus Award had the ability to develop into a Group 1 horse but luck had deserted the three-year-old - until Cox Plate week.
"We hoped at start of spring he would get to the Cox Plate," O'Brien said. "His program was set to have the two runs at the mile (a1600m) and he ran super in the Stutt Stakes and the Caulfield Guineas was a great run from a horse going forward to the Cox Plate.
"By not winning those races, we left ourselves open to not getting a start in the race."
O'Brien's luck started to turn on Tuesday when Shamus Award was made first emergency for the Cox Plate and his colt was allocated barrier three.
"Then there was unfortunate injury to Atlantic Jewel and we got a run in the race," O'Brien said.
"In this industry, you just have to keep turning up and persevering. "We haven't had much go our way this spring but on the day everything fell into place.
"The bad luck doesn't last forever - fortune favours the brave."
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