High Chaparral is now the sire of six Northern Hemisphere Group 1 winners, including dual Group 1 winning miler Toronado, who took last year’s G1 Sussex Stake and this year’s G1 Queen Anne Stakes, Lucky Lion, who won this year’s G1 Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen in Germany and High Jinx who took the G1 Prix du Cadran on the Arc undercard. The sextet is completed by dual GI Northern Dancer Turf Stakes victor Wigmore Hall, GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Wrote and the highly promising Free Eagle, winner of this year’s G3 Enterprise Stakes.

As successful as High Chaparral became in the Northern Hemisphere, his greatest achievements have undoubtedly been in Australia where he stood his first Southern Hemisphere season as a replacement for Montjeu at Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand in 2005.

High Chaparral’s first Southern Hemisphere crop included the horse that many predict will be his greatest legacy - the globetrotting superstar So You Think. A strapping dark bay in the mold of his sire, So You Think won his first of two G1 Cox Plates, Australia’s most historic weight-for-age contest, as a 3-year-old about a month before his true third birthday in 2009, and after sitting out the autumn he added four more Group 1s, including a Cox Plate repeat, before finishing third under top weight in the G1 Melbourne Cup. Purchased by the Coolmore partners, So You Think was expatriated to Ballydoyle collecting three European Group 1s in his first Northern Hemisphere campaign, including the G1 Coral-Eclipse and the G1 Irish Champion Stakes. So You Think repeated in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup the following May and finished off an illustrious career with a decisive score in the G1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot. Like his sire before him, So You Think now splits his time between Coolmore Ireland in Coolmore Australia.