So You Think
| So You Think | |
|---|---|
| Sire | High Chaparral (IRE) |
| Grandsire | Sadler's Wells |
| Dam | Triassic |
| Damsire | Tights (USA) |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 2006 |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | M.J. Moran & Piper Farm Ltd |
| Owner | Coolmore Stud et. al. |
| Trainer | Aidan O'Brien |
| Record | 12: 8-2-1 |
| Earnings | AU$5,284,850[1] |
| Major wins | |
| 2009, 2010 W.S. Cox Plate 2010 Underwood Stakes 2010 Yalumba Stakes 2010 LKS Mackinnon Stakes | |
| Honours | |
| Timeform rating: 133 [2] | |
| Last updated on 1 November 2010 | |
So You Think (foaled 10 November 2006)[3] is a New Zealand-bred thoroughbred racehorse, now majority owned by Coolmore Stud of Ireland. Foaled by the Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge, New Zealand, he was sold at the 2008 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale and was trained for Malaysian billionaire Dato Tan Chin Nam by Bart Cummings, a combination which won four Melbourne Cups with Think Big (twice), Saintly and Viewed.
With a Timeform rating of 133, (ranking him with Goldikova as top horse worldwide for 2010 and ahead of champion Zenyatta), So You Think came to prominence through winning the 2009 and 2010 Cox Plates,[4] Australia's premier weight for age race. His second Cox Plate win came at just his tenth career start. He started as favourite for the 2010 Melbourne Cup but was third, in his first race past 2040m.
Following that race the Coolmore Stud reportedly paid AUD$25 million[5]for a majority interest in the horse which will be raced in Europe and trained by Aidan O'Brien.
Racing record
2009
So You Think had won two of his four starts before the 2009 Cox Plate, including a Group 3 against his fellow three-year-olds, and earned a start in the Cox Plate with a solid finish for fifth in the Caulfield Guineas. There was some debate on whether the horse had achieved enough to warrant a start in the Cox Plate, but the Moonee Valley Racing Club decided that he was up to the challenge. He won the Cox Plate in convincing style, leading all the way[6] to win by 2½ lengths in a fast time of 2:03.98. So You Think followed up his Cox Plate win with a second in the Emirates Stakes two weeks later, in his last race as a three-year-old.
2010
The horse resumed racing as a four-year-old in August 2010 with a win in the Memsie Stakes, beating several of Australia's top gallopers and making him the early favourite for the 2010 Cox Plate. Group One wins in the Underwood Stakes and the Yalumba Stakes meant he started odds-on for the Cox Plate, with many people labeling him as one of the best horses to ever race in Australia. He won the 2010 Cox Plate in convincing style with Steven Arnold as jockey. A week later the horse was untroubled in winning the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes. He came third in the Melbourne Cup behind Maluckyday and winner Americain. After the race the horse was sold to Coolmore Stud to race in Europe in 2011 and eventually to be placed in stud.[5]
References
- ^ ASB: So You Think (NZ) Retrieved 2010-10-30
- ^ Timeform Rating
- ^ ASB -So You Think (NZ)
- ^ 2009 Cox Plate result
- ^ a b Cook, Craig (4 November 2010). "Offshore bid to take So You Think has Bart 'in the dark'". Adelaide Now. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ What Do You Think?
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