DURING her well-earned rest this winter, the unbeaten Black Caviar will win the Australasian Horse Of The Year title but may lose her World Champion status, reports The Age. It says: In the short term, her challenge comes from Henry Cecil's recent 2000 Guineas winner Frankel. But ultimately, it is former Australian superstar So You Think that poses the biggest threat to the mare's ranking as the world's best racehorse. If So You Think can win the races put before him by trainer Aidan O'Brien ove

DURING her well-earned rest this winter, the unbeaten Black Caviar will win the Australasian Horse Of The Year title but may lose her World Champion status, reports The Age.

It says: In the short term, her challenge comes from Henry Cecil's recent 2000 Guineas winner Frankel. But ultimately, it is former Australian superstar So You Think that poses the biggest threat to the mare's ranking as the world's best racehorse. If So You Think can win the races put before him by trainer Aidan O'Brien over the next few months, he will move beyond Black Caviar's mark of 130.

When the international ratings committee meets in six days, it is expected Frankel's Guineas win could propel him to a 130 rating alongside Black Caviar, who earned that mark with her record-breaking Newmarket Handicap win in March.

Tomorrow night in Ireland, the dual Cox Plate winner So You Think is ranked a hot favourite for his first European group 1 win at the Curragh, but given the depth of the line-up in the Tattersalls Gold Cup he would have to win by more than six lengths to lift his rating beyond 126. He won his European debut by 10 lengths three weeks ago.

He then continues in group 1 races through the Prince Of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot next month before the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in July with the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris in October the ultimate goal.

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