Updated Closer Look at Not a Single Doubt

The sad passing of Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Not a Single Doubt has given us the opportunity to revisit a popular story we did on the much loved son of Redoute’s Choice in 2020 showing his rise to success book by book.

Not a Single Doubt was one of those horses that spent most of his stud career being underestimated, which is hardly surprising given the illustrious company he was keeping at Arrowfield.

A speedy Listed winner at two, whose big claim to fame was running second to Dance Hero in a Magic Millions 2YO Classic, Not a Single Doubt had nothing in his race record to suggest he would go on to sire 16 Group I winners (to date) at distances ranging from 1100 to 2500m.

He is by champion sire Redoute’s Choice from the female family of Snippets, so two big pluses there, but not enough to warrant a fee of any more than $13,750 in his first six years at stud and nothing more than $33,000 in the five years after.

While other high profile horses have come and gone on the Arrowfield roster, Not a Single Doubt  remained and flourished giving hope to every studmaster in the country standing a well bred colt whose race record may be less than stellar.

There is also a lesson here in persistence and keeping the faith as his first Group I winner did not come on the scene until his fifth crop of foals.

While champion racehorses frequently produce offspring nowhere near as good as them, Not a Single Doubt has consistently produced horses a lot better than he was and that’s a bit of genetic magic!

The lifetime stats for Not a Single Doubt are 73% winner to runner and 7.4% SW to runner.

Not a Single Doubt has no fewer than six sons at stud - -Extreme Choice, Farnan, Dubious, Doubtland, Anders, and Squamosa.

Not a Single Doubt (Foaled 2001)