So You Think may take on Frankel in racecourse swansong
Posted by Robert James on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Racing fans might have to wait until Sandown in July, but it might well come to pass that the mighty Frankel will face the great ex-Australian champion So You Think when the Ballydoyle colt makes his anticipated final racecourse appearance in the Group 1 Coral Eclipse Stakes over ten furlongs at the Esher track in mid-summer to trigger a horse racing betting bonanza, writes Elliot Slater.
Connections of the imposing son of High Chaparral have announced that the Sandown contest will likely be the last time we see the globetrotting star in action as he will then enter quarantine before returning to the southern hemisphere to take up stallion duties at Coolmore Australia alongside Zoffany, Musir and Uncle Mo.
Never far from the horse racing betting news headlines, So You Think is a winner of 12 of his 21 races at distances between seven and 11 furlongs. The six-year-old has so far clocked up an amazing eight Group 1 victories, including two victories in Australia’s prestigious Cox Plate, the 2011 Coral Eclipse Stakes, and the Irish Champion Stakes a couple of months later. Third in the 2010 Melbourne Cup over two miles under a big weight, So You Think also failed by a whisker to win the Prince of Wales’s Stakes last term when nosed out by the late Rewilding on the line, ran fourth in both the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and last month’s Dubai World Cup, and was a solid runner-up to Cirrus des Aigles in the Champions Stakes at Ascot in October.
Reported to have come home safe and sound from his run at Meydan at the end of March, Aidan O’Brien’s charge will have a few more races before he retires and the prospect of a potential clash with the world’s highest rated horse Frankel in the Eclipse Stakes would be something racing fans would travel a very long way to see.
Connections of the imposing son of High Chaparral have announced that the Sandown contest will likely be the last time we see the globetrotting star in action as he will then enter quarantine before returning to the southern hemisphere to take up stallion duties at Coolmore Australia alongside Zoffany, Musir and Uncle Mo.
Never far from the horse racing betting news headlines, So You Think is a winner of 12 of his 21 races at distances between seven and 11 furlongs. The six-year-old has so far clocked up an amazing eight Group 1 victories, including two victories in Australia’s prestigious Cox Plate, the 2011 Coral Eclipse Stakes, and the Irish Champion Stakes a couple of months later. Third in the 2010 Melbourne Cup over two miles under a big weight, So You Think also failed by a whisker to win the Prince of Wales’s Stakes last term when nosed out by the late Rewilding on the line, ran fourth in both the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and last month’s Dubai World Cup, and was a solid runner-up to Cirrus des Aigles in the Champions Stakes at Ascot in October.
Reported to have come home safe and sound from his run at Meydan at the end of March, Aidan O’Brien’s charge will have a few more races before he retires and the prospect of a potential clash with the world’s highest rated horse Frankel in the Eclipse Stakes would be something racing fans would travel a very long way to see.