For a stallion expected to get a slew of
winners before Christmas, former speedy
juvenile Not a Single Doubt was looking
a bit shaky by Magic Millions time in
January, but the son of Redoute’s Choice
has really hit his straps in the last
month notching his ninth winner when
Absolute Faith saluted at Flemington on
Saturday.
Improving
from her narrow defeat on debut at
Caulfield on April 4, the John McArdle
trained Absolute Faith relished a step
up to 1400 metres, leading throughout to
take the open fillies event by a length.
An
$80,000 purchase for Redgum Racing from
the Arrowfield draft at the 2008 Inglis
Premier Yearling Sale, Absolute Faith
(pictured left as a yearling) is
a strongly built bay from the St Jovite
mare Tender Saint (USA), a half-sister
to the dam of triple Group One winner
Helenus.
A Listed winning sprinter from a
half-sister by Rory’s Jester to
Snippets, Not a Single Doubt is bred to
fire up with his babies and is doing so
now as the leading first season sire by
individual winners with nine of them,
seven here and two in New Zealand.
Six
of his Australian winners are
metropolitan winners and while Not a
Single Doubt is lacking a stakes horse
at present, it seems only a matter of
time before one comes along, which is
surely good news for his supporters and
there must be a few as he covered his
biggest book of 161 mares to date last
spring.
The cheapest horse on the Arrowfield
roster for the last few years at a fee
of $13,750, Not a Single Doubt
(pictured) has stayed at that
fee, so will represent great value given
that we now know he can do what he is
supposed to and that is sire two
year-old winners.