Exciting
So You Think 2yo Political Debate is one of the best looking colts you would ever see and he has the talent to match, posting his first
stakes victory at Eagle Farm on Saturday when casting off maiden status with a tough win in the
Listed BRC the Phoenix (1500m).
POLITICAL DEBATE (inside) winning the Phoenix Stakes
Political Debate was second on debut at Canterbury in April and then was a barnstorming third in the
Group 2 BRC Spirit of Boom Classic last month.
He was
balloted out of the Group 2 BRC Sires Produce Stakes last weekend with the Phoenix chosen as Plan B.
Ridden by James McDonald, Political Debate showed his inexperience by racing greenly after things did not go to plan but was still able to scrape home over Kiwi raider Sharp ‘n’ Smart.
McDonald admitted he did not give
Political Debate the run he was planning and found himself in front too far from home.
“We ended up in a nice enough spot but not the spot I wanted to be in, to be fair, and he was left in front a long way from home so that was a jockey error,” he said.
“He’s a beautiful horse. Nothing really went right in the run. He copped a bit of interference early.”
Political Debate will back up next Saturday for the
Group 1 BRC JJ Atkins (1600m) as will runner-up Sharp ‘n’ Smart.
A $900,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Hermitage / T Magnier from the Kia Ora stud draft,
Political Debate was bred by Kia Ora and is raced by Coolmore and partners and is the second foal from Nakataan, a winning half-sister by Zabeel to Champion NZ 3YO Filly and multiple Group 2 winner Fix.
Nakataan comes from a European Black Type family that is very familiar here as it has also produced his triple Group 1 winning, $2million earning import Foreteller (IRE).
Kia Ora sold the yearling Deep Field filly from Nakataan at Inglis Easter this year for $280,000.
Nakataan has a colt by Deep Field to follow and is now back in foal to Political Debate’s sire
So You Think.
Political Debate is the 41st stakes-winner for Coolmore based So You Think and is his eleventh this season, with ten of theses in Australia.
SO YOU THINK - Having a wonderful season
So You Think is the champion son of High Chaparral, and stands at a fee of
$93,500 this spring.
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