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French Stakes-Winner for So You Think

Tara Madgwick - Thursday April 12
Dual Cox Plate winner So You Think has been enjoying a hot run in Australia as a sire with new stakes-winners D'Argento, Think Bleue and The Pinnacle and added to that tally with a stakes-winner in France on Wednesday with Marathon Man winning the Listed Prix Jacques Laffitte at Longchamp.

So You ThinkA four year-old entire trained by Carlos et Yann Lerner, Marathon Man scored a tenacious head win in the 1m1f contest, his fourth win from 14 starts.

He is the tenth stakes-winner for So You Think and is his first in the Northern Hemisphere.

Marathon Man is a half-brother to stakes-placed Saunter and is from Marie des Fleurs, a half-sister by Smart Strike to stakes-winner Anazone from Group III winner Ozone Bere.

So You Think had eight yearlings average $141,875 at Inglis Easter Book 1 with his top seller a colt from Chanel Number Five that made $200,000 for Windsor Park when knocked down to Adrian Bott/ Gai Waterhouse/ Blue Sky Bloodstock.




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