New Zealand bred champion So You Think denied Queen Elizabeth a fairytale win in her Diamond Jubilee year at Royal Ascot on Wednesday.

So You Think (NZ) scored a near three length victory over royal colt Carlton House in the G1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (2000m).  It completed a memorable double for the New Zealand thoroughbred breeding industry after the G1 King’s Stand Stakes victory of Faltaat sprinter Little Bridge (NZ).

So You Think (6h High Chaparral – Triassic by Tights) atoned for his loss in the corresponding event last year when run down by Rewilding (Tiger Hill).  Carlton House had looked momentarily like posting a popular win but he was never able to prevent the NZ bred star posting his 10th Group 1 victory.

Trainer Aidan O’Brien blamed himself for last year’s loss at Royal Ascot.  “It took me a year and a half to learn how to train him,” O’Brien admitted.  “I was probably overworking him, galloping the speed out of him and I suppose I set off on the wrong leg with him.”

So You Think could have his final start in next month’s Coral-Eclipse before taking up stud duties at Coolmore Australia.  “We felt we had him in a place like never before,” O’Brien added.  “We are just delighted to get him back to where Bart Cummings had him.”

A clash with British star Frankel (Galileo) is a distinct possibility in the Coral-Eclipse with Sir Henry Cecil contemplating stepping his wonder colt up to 2000m.

Bred by Piper Farm’s Alex and Cecile Smith in partnership with Windsor Park Stud’s Mike Moran, So You Think (NZ) was sold at NZ Bloodstock’s 2008 Premier Yearling Sale for $110,000.

He won five Group 1 races in Australia, including two Cox Plates, before owners Data Tan Chin Nam and Tunku Ahmad Yahaya sold him to Coolmore Stud.