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$70,000 yearling upstages the bluebloods to win $20 million race.
Joe Pride and the Proven Thoroughbreds team are not the only ones celebrating Think About It's win in The Everest with Newgate Farm and Inglis feeling part of Saturday's success.
Newgate is the owner of the slot in which Think About It ran, which was appropriate given that was where the son of So You Think, who was bred by Greg and Donna Kolivos, was born five years ago.
Proven Thoroughbreds' Jamie Walter said he would not have even bought Think About It had it not have been for Newgate stud manager Jim Carey, which made the Henry Field-run organisation an obvious slot-partner.
"He's an amazing athlete with an amazing heart and that's a rare combination – he's a phenomenal horse,'' Field said.
"Jamie had the foresight to put his money down and buy him and that in itself was an extraordinary slice of judgment.
"I'm just so happy to see, for Australian racing, a syndicated horse give so much joy to so many people. This is what this game is all about. This race is the best, the best of the best.''
Think About It is out of the Flying Spur mare Tiare, whose two others to the track at Private Cheetah (two wins) and Kokoshnik (one win).
Walter paid just $70,000 for Think About It at the 2020 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, which means five of the seven winners have been available for purchase through an Inglis sale ring.
Redzel, who won the first two editions, was sold through Inglis as a $45,000 weanling – before later realising $120,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Classique Legend, the most expensive yearling to win The Everest at $400,000, was sold at Classic, while Nature Strip was passed-in for $90,000 at Premier.
Think About It defeated Savabeel gelding I Wish I Win, who had a leg so offset that he could not be offered for sale and was retained to race by Waikato Stud, and $62,500 Adelaide Magic Millions yearling Private Eye, who is also raced by Proven Thoroughbreds, in The Everest.
The victory was Think About It's 11th win from 12 starts – he finished third at his other outing, at his third start – and the $7 million winner's cheque swelled the two-time Group 1 winner's earnings to just under $21,000 short of $11 million.
"We only paid $70,000 for him at the Inglis Premier Sale in Melbourne," Walter said.
"I must thank Jim Carey from Newgate Farm because, if it wasn't for Jim, I wouldn't have bought him.
"What's he won now? In the vicinity of $10m or something. It's just insane, positively insane. He's a great horse.''