So You Think eyeing the $10 million Dubai World Cup at the Meydan for striking fifth victory for A O’Brien at the start of the season
The $10 million Dubai World Cup at the Meydan on 31st March has become a tempting target for So You Think, the winner of multiple Group 1 Stakes, initially in Australia and in Europe as well since the last two years.
So You Think has already raced in Australia, Europe, the US and now is all set for the challenge put forth in UAE for him, in form of the Dubai World Cup 2012.
The six-year-old bay horse of High Chaparral, out of Triassic, So You Think was under Bart Cummings’ charge until 20th March, 2011, however, the runner ended up with the famous A P O’Brien for the Dubai Carnival.
The last race that So You Think ran under the training of Bart Cummings was the Group 1 Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington on 2nd November, 2010, and the first race that he ran for A P O’Brien was an instant hit as he won
from Bob Le Beau by a staggering ten lengths in the Group 3 High Chaparral European Breeders Fund Mooresbridge Stakes at Curragh on 2nd May.
Till yet, So You Think has represented A P O’Brien's stables eight times and has won half of those starts.
On 22nd May, So You Think won the Group 1 Tatterstalls Gold Cup at Curragh, and missed a hat-trick chance as he came second in the Group 1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes on 15th June at Ascot, that followed
next.
So You Think achieved one of his most significant milestones by winning the Group 1 Coral Eclipse on 2nd July, 2011, at Sandown.
Yearning for more, he claimed his very next race, the Group 1 Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes on 3rd September, 2011, at Leopardstown.
However, yet again, So You Think did not succeed in hitting a hat-trick as he came fourth in the Group 1 Qatar Prix De L’Arc De Triomphe on 2nd October at Longchamp.
His second last start for the year 2011, was the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes on 15th October, in which he came second and his last race of the previous season was the Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on 5th November,
in which he was positioned sixth.
The Group 1 $10 million Dubai World Cup will be the season’s first race for So You Think, racing after a break of nearly four months.
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