On a red letter day for So You Think that produced six winners including his star colts Peltzer and Rocketing By, the dual Cox Plate winner also produced a new stakes-winner when Poland won the Group II MRC Autumn Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
Resuming from a spell, the lightly raced Mike Moroney trained colt scored a stylish length victory at just his fifth race start.
Poland
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placed at his first two starts before winning at Flemington on September 23 and was then pitched into the deep end when running unplaced in the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas.“We have always held him in high regard. I think he's a very good horse,: said Mike Moroney.
“When I saw him parading on Caulfield Guineas Day I knew he shouldn't have been here - he was all over the shop, he’d just come to the end of it by then.
"He's come back, he's evened up, he's a big powerful bloke. He's got a real future.
A $170,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Segenhoe Stud draft for Paul Moroney Bloodstock/Ballymore Stables, Poland has two wins and two placings from five starts and nearly $160,000 in prizemoney.
Poland is a half-brother to group III winner Supreme Profit and is the best and of six winners and the last foal from stakes-placed Sun Song, a Desert Sun (GB) grand-daughter of champion racehorse and three times Australian Horse of the Year Sunline.
Poland is the 31st stakes-winner for dual Cox Plate hero So You Think.
