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So Si Bon’s status
as a Legend is confirmed

On behalf of his ownership group, Lindsay Park Racing is very pleased to announce that So Si Bon will be moving to Living Legends to enjoy his well-earned retirement.

The stunning black gelding by So You Think started his racing career with Robbie Laing on June 11, 2016 over an 1100m, $80,000 race at Sandown. He came 2nd Who could have imagined that his career would go on from that day to span nine years, 9 wins, 10 seconds and 13 thirds with winnings of $2,360,160? So Si Bon was a huge crowd favourite and beloved to his ownership group and their families. He just loved to race and enjoyed the attention from his adoring fans.

He joined the Lindsay Park stable in 2018 and his career blossomed with Group and Listed wins as well as a second in the 2019 Gr.1 Memsie. So Si Bon is loved for many reasons, one of those being his reputation as Racing’s “bad boy turned good”. Just before entering the Lindsay Park stable So Si picked up a bit of a bad habit of trying to bite other horses as he jumped out of the gate - you couldn’t question his commitment to winning! Nevertheless, this is a behaviour rather frowned upon in Racing and so So Si Bon was suspended for trying to “savage another runner”. Due to his unique pedigree that would have made him quite commercial as a stallion, his owners were hoping to solve the bad behaviour without resorting to gelding him. Every effort was made including gear changes, which saw him successfully jump out and trial twice in a row, leading him to be reinstated to race, only for him to exhibit the biting behaviour once again on race day. He received three suspensions in his racing career for biting before the decision was made to give him the ultimate gear change and geld him. Once gelded, So Si Bon’s temperament improved greatly. He was certainly still strong minded and stubborn, but the “colty” characteristics disappeared. As a gelding he went on to have an incredible racing career, being ultra-consistent and racing up to nearly 10 years of age.

He made it to 95 starts over a stellar career and although everyone was hoping he’d make a century, changes in his joints due to his age and the length of his career meant retirement was the best and safest choice.

His last win was on January 7, 2023 and his last ever start was on July 29 of the same year. After a long and well-earned spell at the Lindsay Park farm in Euroa, he went to Lisa Mc Master for a bit of re-education to find out if he might enjoy a new career as a star in the show ring. Lisa and Sammi worked their usual magic with him and fell in love with him as everyone does but after a few show ring outings, everyone could see that his prospects were a bit limited due to his age and the physical demands of his long career as a racehorse. It was therefore decided that the best thing for So Si was full retirement. But that is not to be the end of his time in the spotlight because in a quite wonderful turn of events, Living Legends has offered him a home for life. “So Si is just the sweetest and most intelligent boy. He will just love going places and being adored by his many fans. It has been an honour to work with him and we look forward to visiting him at Living Legends”, said Lisa. 

So Si is due to join Living Legends later this year to give his many fans the chance to meet and adore him in person. He will be retired to the paddock but will enjoy outings as an ambassador under the Living Legends banner.

David Hayes gives an interview on So Si Bon after he bit a horse in the 2018 Newmarket Handicap: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2135715189995318