Heffernan expects Champion showing from So You Think

SEAMIE HEFFERNAN can hardly wait to be reunited with So You Think as he bids for his third European Group One in the Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

Having carried all before him in Australia, the five-year-old was shipped to Ireland at the start of the campaign and barely came off the bridle on his first two starts for Aidan O’Brien, leaving the trainer waxing lyrical about his latest superstar.

Defeat in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot was not in the script, but So You Think silenced the doubters with a battling defeat of last year’s Derby and Arc hero Workforce in a thrilling climax to Sandown’s Coral-Eclipse.