So Si Bon Claims Another Stakes Win

Tara Madgwick - Saturday March 6

Veteran gelding So Si Bon won the Listed VRC March Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday to keep the stakes-winners coming for So You Think, who was Australia's busiest sire last spring covering 261 mares.

So Si Bon wins the March Stakes - image Grant Courtney.

Trained by the team at Lindsay Park, seven year-old So Si Bon won the Group III MRC Eclipse Stakes back in the spring and was having his second run back from a spell in this 1400m sprint.

He raced just behind the leaders and scored a brave half head win under 60kg with Mark Zahra in the saddle.

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“We try to ride him like we’re not really trying, Mark (Zahra) thinks you have to trick him into winning,” said co-trainer Ben Hayes.

A $250,000 Inglis Easter purchase for his original trainer Robbie Laing from the Newgate Farm draft, So Si Bon has the overall record of seven wins and 14 placings from 62 starts with earnings topping $1.6million.

He was bred by Morning Rise Stud and is one of two winners from former smart stakes winning juvenile Black Minx, who died in 2014.

So Si Bon is one of six stakes-winners this season for So You think, who has enjoyed a great run since the start of the year and has sired the winners of over $8.3 million since August 1.




 

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Race Result - Furphy Ale March Stakes LR 1400m

Flemington Track: Good(4) Time: 1:23.19
1
So Si Bon
- 7g So You Think (NZ) x Black Minx (NZ) (Lonhro (AUS))
Tnr: T Dabernig & B Hayes Rdr: M Zahra 60
So You Think
2
0.1
Holbien
- 6g Pierro (AUS) x Carribean Sunset (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE))
Tnr: S J Richards Rdr: W Pike 54
Pierro
3
0.6
Pretty Brazen
- 4m Brazen Beau (AUS) x Pretty Penny (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: T & C McEvoy Rdr: L Currie 56.5
4
1.3
Odeum
- 3f Written Tycoon (AUS) x Movie (AUS) (Red Ransom (USA))
Tnr: M Price & M Kent Jnr Rdr: M J Walker 54.5
5
3.8
Iconoclasm
- 6h Toorak Toff (AUS) x Gold Lottey (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: D T O'Brien Rdr: Damian Lane 55.5
6
4.1
Gold Fields
- 8g Churchill Downs (AUS) x Gold Delta (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: Logan McGill Rdr: Zac Spain 54
7
5.6
Plein Ciel
- 8g Mamool (IRE) x Picobella (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA))
Tnr: D T O'Brien Rdr: Jamie Kah 55
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