COOLMORE'S Ballydoyle trainer Aidan O'Brien yesterday had no hesitation in labelling the world's most famous race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, in Paris next September as one of the goals for the stable's new Australian acquisition, So You Think, reports The Age.It states: O'Brien said on Sky Sports radio yesterday he could hardly wait until the magnificent four-year-old entire arrived in Ireland next month.The final piece in the majority sale of So You Think to Coolmore was completed this wee
COOLMORE'S Ballydoyle trainer Aidan O'Brien yesterday had no hesitation in labelling the world's most famous race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, in Paris next September as one of the goals for the stable's new Australian acquisition, So You Think, reports The Age.
It states: O'Brien said on Sky Sports radio yesterday he could hardly wait until the magnificent four-year-old entire arrived in Ireland next month.
The final piece in the majority sale of So You Think to Coolmore was completed this week when the High Chaparral stallion passed all veterinary checks. His original owners, Dato Tan Chin Nan and Tunku Ahmad Yahaya, have retained a small interest in the stallion, who is valued at as much as $60 million.
''We have heard and seen him and obviously heard all about him before we saw him originally, and he looks an incredible athlete and we are really looking forward to having him over in this part of the world,'' O'Brien said.
''We trained his dad [High Chaparral] here and he was a very good horse. He was very quick and very tough. I think that this horse has all the quality and class of his dad.''
O'Brien said a racing plan was not set for So You Think in Europe, with the horse to have a break over the northern winter. "We will start to get them ready in the spring but obviously all the big races are open to him at Ascot, the Prince of Wales, the King George ... and you would want to go for the Arc after that.
"It looks like with what we have seen of him, he can go in at any depth in any race.''