So You Think: a $110,000 yearling himself when purchased in New Zealand
PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)First met win for So You Think's half-brother
Australia: Trainer Danny O'Brien believes So You Think's half-brother Now You Know is a stakes-class horse in the making after he led all the way for his first metropolitan win at Sandown.
The Elusive City colt was bought for $260,000 as a yearling inNew Zealand after So You Think had won the first of his two Cox Plates for master trainer Bart Cummings as a three-year-old.
So You Think, an Aus$110,000 yearling himself when purchased in New Zealand, has gone on to prove himself one of the world's best middle-distance gallopers.
He has won eight Group 1 races in three countries and $6.6 million in prize-money.
"He (Now You Know) was a very nice yearling. So You Think probably wasn't as forward as him," O'Brien said.
"This horse isn't by High Chaparral but we think he's a stakes-class horse in the making."
Ridden by Craig Williams, Now You Know, backed from $8 to $6 in the Premier Signs Handicap (1400m), lasted by a short-head from Shanghai Warrior ($7) with favourite Dany TheFox ($2.15) two lengths away third.
"Craig was always going to be aggressive on him today and they had to chase him down as he's probably looking for a mile and a quarter (2,000m)," O'Brien said of the three-year-old, whohas had seven starts for two wins and two seconds, his other victory being in a 1600m sale maiden four starts ago in October.
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