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Multiple Group 1 winning daughter of Not A Single Doubt latest headline entry.
Multiple Group 1 winner and leading filly of her generation Shout The Bar (Not A Single Doubt) is the latest headline entry for this year's Inglis Chairman's Sale, which will be held at Riverside Stables on May 6.
The now five-year-old has won four of her 16 career starts and placed in a further two for earnings totalling almost $1.2 million.
Trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Shout The Bar burst onto the scene in the autumn of 2020 when winning her first two starts by more than five lengths. She then ran a very close second in the Kembla Grange Classic (Gr 3, 1600m) before capturing the first of her Group 1 victories, the 2020 Vinery Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) two weeks later.
It was that first preparation which initially highlighted her versatility, winning from 1150 to 2000 metres in the space of six weeks.
Shout The Bar then returned as a spring four-year-old to win her second Group 1, the Empire Rose Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Flemington, beating home Group 1 winners including Forbidden Love (All Too Hard), Mystic Journey (Needs Further), Nettoyer (Sebring) and Odeum (Written Tycoon).
Shout The Bar was selected as a yearling by Brett Howard of Randwick Bloodstock, who described her as a 'top-class yearling'' and believes she will produce the same as a broodmare.
"She was well balanced with great strength and had one of the best walks at the sale. If she can throw all or some of those qualities into her foals, they are going to make plenty as yearlings,'' Howard said.
"Shout The Bar is by a proper stallion in Not A Single Doubt, a horse we are now seeing rocket up the Australian broodmare sire's list and it will be no surprise to see him cement himself in the top ten on that list within a few years.
"Shout The Bar's genetic makeup is superb, there are no weaknesses. By Not A Single Doubt, out of an O'Reilly mare, out of a Centaine mare. And she comes from a female line which has proven repeatedly it can produce Group 1 winners.''
Respected and well-known industry enthusiast Francis Cook raced Shout The Bar with his wife Chris and others and recalled the first time he saw her as a yearling.
"I wrote one comment in my book – WOW! – so when Gai bought her and with Brett's help, we jumped in,'' Cook said.
"It's always the 'Cooky bum', the hip to hock, she was a perfectly conformed specimen with a great bum.
"She asserted herself as a star very quickly – to achieve what she did in that first preparation, from winning on debut over 1150 metres to being a Group 1 winner defeating Probabeel just six weeks later, not many horses can do that.
"I just can't see how she won't make a magnificent broodmare. As a daughter of Not A Single Doubt, they're highly sought after and she'd be one of the best-performed of those on the racetrack.''
Inglis Senior Bloodstock Consultant Harry Bailey is thrilled with how the Chairman's catalogue is coming together.
"Shout The Bar is a fantastic addition to the sale, particularly when you look at the good daughters of Not A Single Doubt, they are owned by people you just can't buy them from, so she really is a rare article," Bailey said.
"The interest in the sale has been phenomenal and we are close to finalising what will be a fantastic catalogue full of quality race fillies and mares, as well as mares carrying desirable pregnancies.
"Entries must close soon so anybody who is considering sending their mares to the Chairman's, now is the time to get those entries finalised because the sale is effectively oversubscribed already, it's going to be one heck of a night again.''
Entries for the Chairman's Sale close this week, while supplementary entries will remain open until Friday April
