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Jockey Club Gold Cup that enhanced his standing in defeat. With racing done and Zenyatta freed from the shackles of geographic partisanship, adulation has followed her as she readies for her second career as a broodmare. Now domiciled at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, the daughter of Street Cry is scheduled to be bred to Bernardini, who, like Zenyatta’s sire, is a Darley resident stallion. Her eve ry move, like a monarch’s, continues to be covered and the attention no doubt will continue unabated until she delivers her first foal, her heir? Goldikova The heir apparent to Zenyatta on track is the Freddie Head-trained Goldikova, who like Zenyatta will campaign at age six, once unheard of for top-class mares. The state of the world economies and the loss of value in global breeding industries can be thanked for prolonging racing careers nowadays, and Goldikova, bred and owned by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, will attempt to exploit it financially and historically with an unprecedented fourth consecutive Breeders’ Cup Mile in 2011. Already she owns the record with three BC Miles, but her zest for racing and her devastating turn of foot have made her as much an international star as Zenyatta. It’s notable that the Irish-bred and Frenchbased mare with only one 2010 victory in the US was one of three finalists, along with Zenyatta and Blame, for the 2010 Eclipse for Horse of the Year. In 2010, Goldikova was ranked at 133 by Timeform on its Global Rankings, co-second highweight behind Harbinger at 140 and equal with outstanding two-year-old Frankel, Derby and Arc winner Workforce, and Australian star So You Think. So You Think The handsome New Zealand-bred So You Think’s 2011 European campaign will be as eagerly awaited as any in recent memory following the purchase of controlling interest
Goldikova will go for an unprecedented fourth consecutive Breeders’ Cup win in 2011
in the Australasian star by the Coolmore group at the end of 2010. Aidan O’Brien now trains the son of Coolmore’s rising Sadler’s Wells sire High Chaparral, who made a huge impact Down Under from his inexpensive seasons at Windsor Park in New Zealand. Last April, his sons Shoot Out, Descarado, and Monaco Consul filled the first three spots in that order in the Group 1 AJC Australian Derby, but it was the B art Cummings-trained So You Think who emerged as the best of them all with a win in the Group 1 WS Cox Plate. So You Think trained on at four in the latter half of 2010 and captured the hearts and minds of the region with four consecutive Group 1 wins, culminating in a second Cox Plate. A gallant third in the Melbourne Cup over 3,000 metres did nothing to tarnish his reputation in his last start before depar ting for Ballydoyle.
New Zealand-bred So You Think is to be trained by Aidan O’Brien this year
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