So You Thought I'd Stay?
November 3rd 2010 23:33
Some call it the greatest robbery on Australian turf, others are stunned… and many knew it was too good to last. An outstanding racehorse tipped to be one of Australia’s greatest champions sold to Coolmore in Europe for a rumoured 30 million dollars… and like a rugby player with a better offer, he's left a gaping hole in the sport in Australia.
So You Think captured the imagination of the Australian people and was visually outstanding. You just have to look at the odds on Melbourne Cup day (one of the shortest on record) to see how loved So You Think was, a horse we could all get excited about and feel the buzz when he took to the track. Even as he ran third in the Melborne Cup it wasn't bad for a horse who hadn’t run the 3200 before!
The bay stallion will be transferred to Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien after owner Malaysian billionaire Dato Tan Chin Nam decided to send So You Think on a quest to conquer the world. Bart Cummings isn’t happy… he’s now lost potentially one of the greatest race horse’s he’s ever trained. It is surely a loss to Australian Racing, an industry that struggles to get interest outside of feature race meetings and this horse had much more to show us on Australian Turf. Bart is heartbroken. What does Dato Tan have to say about leaving Bart in the dark about the secret sale? His bloodstock manager Duncan Ramage says there has to be a bit of give and take, a bit of yin and yang in the relationship.
I’m going to miss this superstar 4-year-old. Let’s hope he makes the trip back to Australia next spring to show us what he’s got. I guess I am slightly elated by the news that he is continuing to race instead of being retired to the rockstar life in stud but this is surely a huge loss.
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