So You Think

So You Think
Racing silks of Derrick Smith
Sire	High Chaparral (IRE)
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Triassic
Damsire	Tights (USA)
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	2006
Country	New Zealand
Colour	Bay or Brown
Breeder	M.J. Moran & Piper Farm Ltd
Owner	1. Dato Tan Chin Nam 2. Coolmore Stud et al.
Trainer	1. Bart Cummings 2. Aidan O'Brien
Record	23: 14-4-1
Earnings	A$10,749,800
Major wins
W.S. Cox Plate (2009, 2010) Underwood Stakes (2010) Yalumba Stakes (2010) LKS Mackinnon Stakes (2010) Tattersalls Gold Cup (2011, 2012) Eclipse Stakes (2011) Irish Champion Stakes (2011) Prince of Wales's Stakes (2012)
Awards
Australian Champion Three Year (2010)
Honours
World Champion Intermediate Distance Turf Performer (2010) World Champion Extended Distance Performer (2010) Timeform rating: 133
Last updated on 31 December 2010

So You Think (foaled 10 November 2006) is a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse, now majority owned by Coolmore Stud of Ireland. So You Think came to prominence through winning the 2009 and 2010 Cox Plates, 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 finished third, in his first race past 2,040 metres.

He was bred by M J Moran & Piper Farm Ltd and foaled at the Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge, New Zealand. So You Think was purchased for $NZ110,000 at the 2008 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale on behalf of Malaysian billionaire Dato Tan Chin Nam and Tunku Ahmad Yahaya and was trained by Bart Cummings.

He was sired by the Irish-bred Epsom Derby winner High Chaparral out of Triassic, a New Zealand-bred daughter of the American stallion Tights. Although officially a bay, So You Think is a dark brown horse, sometimes appearing almost black.

Southern Hemisphere horses have their official birthday on 1 August, while in the Northern Hemisphere, the date is 1 January. This leads to some confusion concerning So You Think's age. Between 1 January and 1 August 2011, he was a four-year-old by Australian reckoning, but was regarded as a five-year-old in Europe. A similar discrepancy occurred in 2012.

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 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.