![New heights: Jockey Blake Spriggs rides Sir John Hawkwood to win the Metropolitan at Randwick.](/web/20161002030749im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/s/z/4/0/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.grt06u.png/1475313962309.jpg)
Spriggs gets first group 1 and starts thinking about the Melbourne Cup
Blake Spriggs has been trying not to think about the Melbourne Cup for the past couple of weeks because he did want to get "too far ahead" of himself. But his belief in Sir John Hawkwood was finally matched by performance in Saturday's Metropolitan at Randwick.