A world-class 10 time Group one winner, with two Cox Plates and high class UK victories

So You Think 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 first Cox Plate win was at only his fifth career start. 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 2040 metres. So You Think was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2019.

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.

So You Think had won two of his four starts before the 2009 Cox Plate. There was some debate on whether the 3yo 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 convincingly in the 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, his last race as a three-year-old.

The horse resumed racing as a four-year-old in August 2010 with a win in the Memsie Stakes, beating several of Australia's top gallopers and making him the early favourite for the 2010 Cox Plate. Wins in the Gr.1 Underwood Stakes and the Gr 1 Yalumba Stakes meant he started odds-on for the Cox Plate, with many people labeling him as one of the best horses to ever race in Australia. He won the 2010 Cox Plate in convincing style again with Steven Arnold as jockey. A week later the horse was untroubled in winning the Gr.1 Mackinnon Stakes. He came third in the 2010 Melbourne Cup behind Maluckyday and winner Americain. After the race Coolmore Stud reportedly paid A$25 million for a majority interest in So You Think deciding to race the horse in Europe and to be trained by Aiden O'Brien.

So You Think made his European debut in the Gr.3 Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh Racecourse on 2 May 2011, winning by 12 lengths in a field of five. He made it two from two with victory in the Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh on 22 May. Trainer Aidan O'Brien said of his four-and-a-half-length success. He was clear favourite in The Prince of Wales at Ascot 2011, however, he was pipped by Rewilding, ridden by Frankie Dettori. He bounced back on his next outing, in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, winning by a half length from 2010 Derby and Arc winner Workforce.

Following an eight-week spell, So You Think resumed racing again in the Irish Champion Stakes, where he gained a half-length victory over multiple Group One winner Snow Fairy. A month later he ran 4th in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe behind the German Danedream, who won in track record time. So You Think's third run as a five-year-old was in the British Champion Stakes at Ascot in October. He started the race as favourite and went to the front with 400 metres to run but finished second when the French horse Cirrus des Aigles stormed home to win a neck to neck run. He then contested the Breeders' Cup Classic, where he ran sixth in his first race on dirt.

Following a spell of five months, during which he became a six-year-old by Northern Hemisphere, So You Think returned to racing in the Dubai World Cup, where he came fourth in his first run on Tapeta. On his return to Europe, So You Think took the Tattersalls Gold Cup for the second time, beating Famous Name by six lengths in May. In June he returned to Royal Ascot for a second attempt at the Prince of Wales's Stakes. Starting 4/5 favourite against ten opponents, he took the lead two furlongs from the finish and won by two and a quarter lengths from the Queen's colt Carlton House. So You Think was scheduled to make his final appearance in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on 7th May, but was withdrawn after being found to be lame two days before the race.

So You Think was retired and serves as a shuttle stallion in both the Southern and Northern Hemisphere's for Coolmore Stud. His top performers include;

Think About It - winner of the $20m Everest Gr.1 Kingsford Smith Cup, Gr.1 Stradbroke H'cap, Gr.1 Verry Elleegant Stakes

Think It Over - winner of the Gr.1 George Ryder Stakes, Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes

Quick Thinker - winner of the Gr.1 Australian Cup

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

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 Handicap

Knights Order - winner of the Gr.1 Sydney Cup Cup

Sopressa – winner of the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks

Nimalee - winner of the Gr.1 Queen Of The Turf

Palaisipan - winner of the Gr.1 Tattersall's Tiara

RACE RECORD - 23: 14-4-1

EARNINGS - A$10,749,800

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)

Australian Champion Three Year Old (2010)

Australian Champion Middle Distance Racehorse (2011)

New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame

Australian Racing Hall of Fame (2019)

World Champion Intermediate Distance Turf Performer (2010)

World Champion Extended Distance Performer (2010) Timeform 133