Racing:LEGENDARY Australian trainer Bart Cummings has hit out at the tactics employed by Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore after So You Think's Royal Ascot defeat on Wednesday with the race described as a "comedy of errors" in media reports in Australia.

There has been widespread criticism of Ireland’s champion trainer “Down Under” as the intense focus on the five-time Australian Group One winner continues during his European career.

Despite starting long odds-on for the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes, in an attempt to make it three from three in Europe since his transfer last winter, So You Think was defeated by Godolphin’s Rewilding.

O’Brien blamed himself afterwards for not having So You Think fit enough but the horse’s former trainer has been scathing in his criticism of the tactics used and suggests a change of jockey is required.

“They want an Australian jockey,” Bart Cummings was reported as saying. “That’s what they need on him. And what do you want a pacemaker for? The horse relaxes beautifully in the field back here. We don’t go to the lead here until a furlong or a furlong and a half out. To go three furlongs out like he did at Ascot doesn’t make much sense.”

The veteran trainer had dismissed British and Irish racing as not being “worth two bob” before this week’s race and maintains So You Think should not have been transferred to the Northern Hemisphere.

There will be an Australian runner in the today’s Group One Golden Jubilee Stakes at Ascot with Star Witness attempting to go one better than his second in the Kings Stand Stakes earlier this week. Charles O’Brien’s Bewitched is the Irish hope in the big sprint while Aidan O’Brien runs the exciting unbeaten colt Await The Dawn in the Group Two Hardwicke Stakes.