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Australia's newest weight-for-age star Samadoubt topped a stellar day for Arrowfield Stud sires with his second successive Group win at Randwick on Saturday.
The $40,000 yearling sale bargain by Not A Single Doubt proved his upset win in the G1 Winx Stakes over 1400m at Randwick two weeks ago was no fluke when recorded a far more dominant win in the G2 Chelsmsford Stakes over the Randwick mile.
At the end of the day Arrowfield Stud was also celebrating multiple Group wins by champion sire Snitzel and another a stakes win for their boom sire Dundeel.
SAMADOUBT (Not A Single Doubt x Isadora by Gold Fever): In almost identical circumstances to his Winx Stakes win, Samadoubt led at his ease for the last 1200m and established an insurmountable lead in the straight as he cruised to his tenth career win in 36 starts.
His earnings now stand at $795,760, almost 20 times the $40,000 he fetched as a yearling from the Riverside draft at the 2015 Classic Sale when purchased by Darby Racing.
Samadoubt defeated a top class field containing seven individual G1 winners and will next contest the G1 Colgate Optic White (George Main) Stakes at Randwick.
Scott Darby and his breeding partner Garry Bachell corralled the family, having purchased Isadora for $20,000 at the 2012 Scone Broodmare Sale.
Isadora, who died last year, was a winning half-sister to G2 winner Apollo Wonder (Rory's Jester) with Samadoubt her among her five winners from 10 foals to race.
They include the South African winner and G3 performer Thin Red Line (Redoute's Choice). Other stakes performer in Samadoubt's pedigree include the G2 placed Orlington (Orpen).
"We bred Samadoubt and put him up for sale as a yearling but there didn't seem to be much interest in him so I put in a bid and got him for the syndicate for $40,000," Darby said.
Darby also bred a Beneteau colt from Isadora before he sold the mare to other breeders. The colt won a Rosehill trial before he was sold for $230,000 to Hong Kong where he has won three races.
Isadora left two fillies by I Am Invincible and Rothesay and Darby pounced on them when they were offered as yearlings.
Darby paid $62,500 for her I Am Invincible filly at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. He syndicated her and she has won three of her 14 starts.
He then paid $38,000 for Isadora's Rothesay filly at the Scone yearling sale and she is currently being syndicated
Samadoubt is the third G1 winner Darby has syndicated after their Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign – a $20,000 purchase – and multiple G1 winner Yankee Rose, who cost only $10,000.
Samadoubt's early success this season has lifted Not A Single Doubt (Redoute's Choice) to an early lead in the general sires' premiership by prizemoney.
He is the sire of 11 G1 winners including the recent G1 Memsie Stakes winner Scales of Justice.
REDZEL (Snitzel x Millrich by Rubiton): A third Everest win is in reach for Redzel after the brilliant sprinter Redzel proved he was far from a spent force with a dominnat pseed display in the G3 Concorde Stakes at Randwick.
Redzel, sold for only $45,000 as a weanling and then secured by Triple Crown Syndications for $120,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale from the Marquee Stud draft, he has won the only two previous runnings of The Everest – the world's richest turf race - and has now won the Concorde Stakes for the last three years.
The 7YO gelding, trained by Peter and Paul Snowden for Triple Crown Syndications, is the world's highest prize winning sprinter with earnings of $15,644,000 from 15 wins and nine placings in 34 starts.
His late dam Millrich won three races including the G3 Sweet Embrace Stakes as a 2YO was third in the G1 Golden Slipper Stakes.
She also produced G3 winner Danerich (Danehill).
EXHILARATES (Snitzel x Samaready by More Than Ready): It was fitting this high class added the Listed Atlantic Jewel Stakes at Moonee Valley to her record.
Both four-time G1 winner Atlantic Jewel and Exhilarates were born, bred and sold as yearlings by Vinery Stud. Atlantic Jewel was named Australia's Champion 3yo Filly in 2011/12 and Champion Older Mare in 2012/13.
Samaready, the dam of Exhilarates, was also a Vinery raised and sold yearling and became a G1 winner of the 2012 Blue Diamond Stakes and 2013 Moir Stakes
A $600,000 Magic Millions yearling purchase by Godolphin in 2018, Exhilarates was among 20 bought by Sheikh Mohammed to increase the diversity of their domestic gene pool.
She won last season's $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic at the Gold Coast and opened her spring campaign with a win in the G3 Quezette Stakes at Caulfield last month. She has raced nine times for four wins and three seconds and more than $1.55 million prizemoney.
Snitzel, Australia's champion sire, also had a Brisbane winner on Saturday when the talented gelding Scallopini won over 1200m at Eagle Farm.
THE INEVITABLE (Dundeel x Gift Bouquet by King's High): The classy Tasmanian-trained 4YO showed his class with a big win at Moonee Valley in the Listed Strathmore Stakes to add to his fast growing reputation.
The Inevitable was a $90,000 Magic Millions Adelaide purchase from the Cornerstone Stud draft and has won $389,775 for his connections. He is among nine stakes winners by Dundeel in his first two crops to race.
The Scott Brunton-trained star is the final foal of his prolific stakes winning dam Gift Bouquet who died in 2017 after leaving 11 winners from 14 foals to race.
Profit, another rising star by Dundeel, showed he was heading for Group company with an impressive win at Eagle Farm, making it two wins from two starts.