So You Think...one I`ll be following next Flat Season

Champion Australian racehorse So You Think has arrived at Aidan O'Brien's Ballydoyle stables in preparation for the new Flat season.

Formerly trained by the legendary Bart Cummings, the five-year-old lost for the first time in six races when just failing to see out the trip in the Melbourne Cup, in which he finished third.

The son of High Chaparral landed back-to-back victories in the Cox Plate, Australia's premier weight-for-age race, last October before going on to secure his fifth Group One win in the Mackinnon Stakes.

O'Brien intends to aim him at all of Europe's premier middle distance races in 2011.

News From Mr Ellisons Yard

Brian Ellison will give his impressive Finale Juvenile Hurdle winner Marsh Warbler an entry in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham.

The youngster had won two of his first three starts over timber and handled the step up in grade with aplomb. His victory, which came in very soft ground, shot him towards the head of the Triumph Hurdle market but Malton-based Ellison is also considering the Supreme as the ground is likely to be at its softest for the first race of the Festival.

"He won't run again before Cheltenham and he'll also have an entry in the Supreme Novices' as well as the Triumph, but if it's not soft enough he won't run in either," said Ellison.


"He's fine if it's on the easy side of good, he just doesn't want fast ground, but they get the best of the ground in the Supreme so it would be daft not to give him the option."

Reflecting on Marsh Warbler's Chepstow win, Ellison added: "You wouldn't think he'd had a race, it took nothing out of him

"Fearghal (Davis) said he hit him on the run-in but he didn't need to, he would have won without it. He picked up again after the last which was impressive."

Meanwhile Brian will go in search of more big-race glory with Palomar in Saturday's williamhill.com Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton.

Ellison secured his first win at the highest level when Marsh Warbler landed the Finale Juvenile Hurdle at Chepstow on Saturday and his horses remain in tremendous heart in both forms of the game.

Palomar was last seen winning a jumpers' bumper at Southwell at the end of last month, his first start since a fine run in the November Handicap on the Flat. On his last outing over hurdles, he landed a valuable event at Market Rasen and is currently on a career-high mark over timber.

"He's in good fettle and he's run well in similar races," said Ellison.

"Obviously he won the £40,000 race at Market Rasen and has run well on the Flat since then and is in good form with himself.

"I thought we'd put him in and have a look. He should get a run anyway.

"He won one of those bumpers the other day too so he's going there in good form. The horses couldn't be in better form. Our Flat horses and our jumpers are all going well."

Those towards the top of the handicap include Paul Nicholls' Like Minded and stablemate Organisateur along with Black Jack Blues, James De Vassey and Bygones Of Brid.