TRAINER Mark Newnham, a former trackwork rider and assistant to Gai Waterhouse, saddled the second Group 1 winner of his fledgling training career when Mark Towell’s home-bred Nakeeta Jane (So You Think) won the Surround Stakes last weekend in Australia.

The Warwick Farm feature race winner is the fifth Group 1 winner and one of 15 stakes winners for her sire So You Think (High Chaparral). A champion in Australia and Ireland, So You Think won five Group 1 races down under before joining Aidan O’Brien at Ballydoyle, after which he added five more top-flight victories.