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Samadoubt's unexpected victory in the Winx Stakes at Randwick provided his sire Not A Single Doubt with his 11th Group One winner.
Samadoubt claimed the first G1 race of 2019/20 Australian racing season when led from start to finish to upstage a star studded field of G1 winners..
A 6YO gelding trained by Bjorn Baker Samadoubt (Not A Single Doubt x Isadora) defeated a stellar field containing seven individual G1 winners for his ninth win in 35 starts.
Offered at the 2015 Classic Summer Sale by Riversdale Farm, Samadoubt was bought for just $40,000 by syndicators Darby Racing.
It was an obvious sale ring result as Darby Racing founder and manager Scott Darby bred the gelding from the Gold Fever mare Isadora.
Darby and his breeding partner Garry Bachell bought Isadora for just $20,000 at the 2012 Scone Broodmare Sale, being attracted to the mare as she is a winning half-sister to G2 performer Apollo Wonder and was a proven producer as the dam of the South African multiple stakes placegetter Thin Red Line (Redoute's Choice) and the winner Top Brass (Commands).
"We bred Samadoubt and put him up for sale as a yearling but there didn't seem to be much interest in him when he was in the ring," Darby said.
"I decided to put in a bid and got him for the syndicate for $40,000."
Darby Racing has made a habit of paying low prices for big winners.
Samadoubt is the third G1 winner Darby has syndicated joining their Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign – a $20,000 purchase – and the outstanding multiple G1 winner Yankee Rose, who cost only $10,000 and earned more than $2 million.
Samadoubt's took his earnings to $795,760 with Saturday's win.
Darby also bred a Beneteau colt from Isadora before he sold the mare to other breeders.
The Beneteau colt named Malmsteen won a Rosehill trial for Darby and Bjorn Baker before he was sold for $230,000 to Hong Kong where he has won three races.
Isadora died last year but not before she left two fillies by I Am Invincible and Rothesay.
Not to let an opportunity slip by, Darby paid $62,500 for her I Am Invincible filly at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
He syndicated her and racing as Meraki Miss she has won three times in 14 starts.
He again went back to the well and paid $38,000 for the Rothesay x Isadora filly at the Scone yearling sale and she is currently being syndicated.