newbie question about weird legacy database schema

here's the current schema of my database

/* First, create our thread table: */
CREATE TABLE thread (
id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
dat_id INT,
title VARCHAR(50),
body TEXT,
created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL
);

CREATE TABLE dat_001 (
id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
thread_id INT,
title VARCHAR(50),
body TEXT,
created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL
);

CREATE TABLE dat_002 (
id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
thread_id INT,
title VARCHAR(50),
body TEXT,
created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL
);

and so on

I know that this is not exactly how the cakephp database would be but
i am a newbie at this and i would like to know
how do i code this kinda relationship on cakephp. how do I do 1 to
many relationship in cakephp.
I know i can do this in codeigniter and that's what i used to use but
I have to start workin on cakephp and i have found it to be quite good
but run into this kinda problem
so if anyone can help guide me toward to right way of doing this
please let me know.

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