Timeform has rated So You Think’s victory in the G1 Eclipse Stakes as the most outstanding international performance by any Australasian thoroughbred of the modern era.

Since Timeform was founded by Phil Bull in 1948, it has grown into an internationally renowned organisation with its ratings widely accepted as the definitive measure of racing merit.

Timeform’s Australian representative Gary Crispe maintains that despite the outstanding international achievements during the past 50 years from southern hemisphere champions, none have managed to achieve what So You Think (NZ) has accomplished in his short stint in the Northern Hemisphere.

“So You Think has eclipsed the past deeds of some great overseas gallopers who were unable to achieve this single most significant feat – beat the Europeans on British soil over a middle distance.”

New Zealand has bred and trained many outstanding ambassadors who have flown the Kiwi flag on the international stage, but according to Crispe, not since the New Zealand bred Phar Lap beat America’s best in the Agua Caliente Handicap in 1932, has an Australasian horse made such an impact on world racing.

So You Think (High Chaparral) was sold at the Karaka Premier Sale in 2008 for $110,000.  Phar Lap (NZ) is also a graduate of the New Zealand Sales and was bought for 160 guineas in 1928.

With both of these champions bred, raised and sold in New Zealand, the impact that New Zealand thoroughbreds have had in the past, and are having now on world racing is significant, and their exploits overseas are invaluable when looking at promoting New Zealand thoroughbreds, and Australasian racing to the world.

“All So You Think’s critics were silenced at Sandown in the Eclipse Stakes over 10 furlongs where he faced Europe’s top-rated middle distance / staying colt Workforce (Timeform rated 133) who had won the 2010 Epsom Derby and Arc de Triomphe,” Crispe said.

“So You Think demonstrated his superiority over Workforce, giving the colt a start and winning up the Sandown Park straight.”

Timeform assessed the merit of the win at 134 which make the son of High Chaparral the third highest rated horse in the world, and the highest rated middle distance horse on the planet.

Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2012 National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka are due now.  To enter your yearlings please contact NZB on 09 298 0055 or visit www.nzb.co.nz.