So You Think and Sea The Moon among the sires on fire on Group 1-laden card

Think It Over won Saturday’s George Ryder Stakes to become the seventh individual Group 1 winner for Coolmore stallion So You Think.

So You Think is best remembered in Europe for his time with Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle, when he won the Prince of Wales's Stakes, Irish Champion Stakes, Coral-Eclipse and two Tattersalls Gold Cups.

In defeating Dreamforce and Avilius, his five-year-old son Think It Over booked his place in the Doncaster Mile.

A homebred for Bylong Park, Think It Over is out of a half-sister to Group 1 winner Universal Prince and Universal Queen, while he is also from the family of Coolmore Classic winner Krone.

So You Think, the sire of 29 individual stakes winners, covered 261 mares last year at a fee of A$38,500.

His previous top-level winners were D'Argento, Inference, La Diosa, Nakeeta Jane, Quick Thinker and Sopressa.

Earlier on the same card, European raider Favorite Moon landed the Group 3 N E Manion Quality Cup Handicap, earning Lanwades Stud stallion Sea The Moon his 13th individual stakes winner.

The William Haggas-trained Favorite Moon, who travelled over to Australia with Ranvet Stakes runner-up Addeybb, was making his first start in Australia and defeated Realm Of Flowers - by So You Think - by a neck.

Favourite Moon, the winner of two of his nine races in Britain, is the second stakes winner out of Favorite, who also foaled Listed winner and Group 1-placed Fun Mac.

Favorite Moon was cut to favouritism with some bookmakers for next month’s Sydney Cup following Saturday's success.

Also a Group winner at Rosehill was Azamour's daughter Polly Grey, who broke her Australian duck at the 11th attempt when landing the Epona Stakes.

Polly Grey had landed the Listed Matamata Cup in 2019 when in the care of Kylie Fawcett, but had struggled to finish first past the post in Australia since joining Chris Waller’s yard. She ended that run with a half-length defeat of Aliferous.

"She’s had a bit of bad luck go against her, but finally today was her day here in Australia,” said Waller. “Hopefully, it’s not the last win. I think there’s a few more to come."

Azamour, the sire of 43 individual stakes winners, shuttled to Bright Hill Stud in New Zealand for one season before his sad death aged 13 in 2014.

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