Punters with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au believe this weekend’s Irish Champion Stakes is at So You Think’s mercy, backing him from $1.40 into $1.30.
“Some of the world’s best horses have won the Irish Champion Stakes but it seems this year’s event will be a walk in the park for So You Think,” sportsbet.com.au’s Haydn Lane said.
“Aidan O’Brien has half of the six-strong field and hopefully there’s not much chance of another Prince Of Wales’s Stakes debacle.”
So You Think has drifted out to $15 to win a third successive Cox Plate after connections strongly hinted the race was not likely to be on their radar.
He is the $4.00 favourite for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in October.
Markets courtesy of sportsbet.com.au
2011 Irish Champion Stakes
$1.30 So You Think (in from $1.40)
$6.00 Snow Fairy (out from $4.50)
$11 Famous Name
$17 Dunboyne Express
$17 Recital
$17 Roderic O’Connor
2011 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
$4.00 So You Think
$5.00 Sarafina
$6.00 Workforce
$6.50 Nathaniel
$9.00 Meandre
$11 Sea Moon, Galikova
Others quoted
2011 Cox Plate
$8.00 Whobegotyou
$10 Lights Of Heaven
$15 So You Think (doubtful), Jimmy Choux, Helmet
$17 Smart Missile, Rekindled Interest
$19 Linton
$21 Cape Blanco, Shamrocker, More Joyous, Kings Rose
