TRL Player Profile: Lot 862 So You Think x St Remy

Jan 27, 2021

By Terry Kennedy

“By So You Think, winner of back to back Cox Plates and the highest-rated Australian colt of the modern age”

 

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Sire – So You Think

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So You Think came to prominence through winning the 2009 and 2010 Cox Plates, Australia’s premier weight for age race. His first Cox Plate win was at only his fifth career start. He had 10 Gr.1 wins in 2 hemispheres defeating over 75 individual Gr.1 winners with earnings of $8.9 million.

 

So You Think wins the Cox Plate 2010  

Rated 133 by Timeform – The highest-rated Australian colt of the modern age. Higher-rated than Pierro, All Too Hard, Zoustar, Dundeel, Capitalist etc. His career so far at stud has been just as good, with his top performers including:

  • Quick Thinker – winner of the Gr.1 Australian Derby, Gr.2 Tulloch Stakes, Gr.3 Ming Dynasty H’cap & Listed Champagne Stakes
  • Inference – Gr.1 Randwick Guineas winner, runner-up in the Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas & third in the Gr.1 Victoria Derby
  • Nakeeta Jane – Gr.1 Surround Stakes & Gr.2 Light Fingers Stakes winner. Placed in the Gr.1 Randwick Guineas & Gr.1 Flight Stakes
  • La Bella Diosa – Gr.1 NZ 1000 Guineas & Gr.2 Surround Stakes winner
  • D’Argento – winner of the Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas. Runner-up in the Gr.1 Epsom H’cap & Gr.2 Theo Marks Stakes
  • Sopressa – multiple winner including the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks & Gr.3 Auraria Stakes