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So You Think wins successive Tattersalls Gold Cup
story - Herald Sun
SO You Think treated a bunch of what can only be described as modestly performed horses in last night's Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh as you would imagine Michael Clarke would a park trundler.
It was a mismatch as So You Think put the sword to his four rivals with ridiculous ease in what was loosely termed a Group 1.
The dual Cox Plate winner was unextended as he won his ninth Group 1, his second successive win in the Tattersalls Gold Cup.
Ridden by Joseph O'Brien, son of trainer Aidan, So You Think enjoyed the tempo put on by pacemaker and stablemate Robin Hood.
O'Brien took So You Think to the front at the entrance to the long run in and extended him only for about a furlong as he sealed yet another Group 1, albeit one of the weakest he's ever contested.
The Dermot Weld trained Famous Name, the 7/1 second favourite battled on bravely for second, but at no stage did he ever look like troubling So You Think, who was simply in a different class.
O'Brien slipped So You Think, the 2/11 favourite, back into cruise control over the final 100-150 metres as he coasted to a six length win.
So You Think, nearing the end of his racetrack career, will next head to Royal Ascot where he's expected to start in the Prince Of Wales Stakes (2000 m).
It was the race that he ran second in last year behind Godolphin's Rewilding.
So You Think's career is likely to end in the Coral Eclipse Stakes, a race he won last year.
With his latest success in a race that carried a first prize purse of $167,017, So You Think has now earned $7,656,795.
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