News - DOUBTLAND (AUS)
Far from the glitter and Group racing at Flemington, lightly raced Doubtland gelding Confucious Flyer smashed the track record at Morphettville Parks stamping himself as an exciting sprinter on the up.
Team Hawkes put the polish on $1.1million Not a Single Doubt colt Doubtland, who won the Group II VRC Danehill Stakes before retiring to Widden Stud and they produced an impressive debut winner by the young stallion at Newcastle on Tuesday.
The Breednet tour of the Victorian stallion parades ended on Friday at Widden Stud and while this day is often held in arctic conditions, the weather gods were kind this year!
A pair of new juvenile winners and a first time stakes performer made it a good Saturday for Widden Stud’s Victorian based value sire Doubtland.
With a drama packed start to the Stow Robotics Handicap (1100m) at Caulfield after the late withdrawals of No Confetti and Rebel Tuesday who broke through the barriers, a photo finish once the line was reached saw Doubtland gelding Doubt Time get up to defeat the race favourite.
Rick Jamieson of Gilgai Farm is renowned as one of the finest breeders in Australia and he breeds for pedigree rather than the sale ring which can deliver a few surprises.
Having just his fourth career start, progressive 3yo Doubtland gelding Blaze Away recorded consecutive wins, pulling clear to win the fourth race of the day at Caulfield on Wednesday, MRC The Big Screen Company Handicap (1100m), giving his trainer Claire Patterson her first city winner.
Widden Stud's Doubtland has a potential 2YO topliner in Perth in the shape of exciting WA colt All On Red, who remains undefeated from two starts after another comprehensive Ascot Saturday win.
Perth turned on a perfect warm spring afternoon as a backdrop to the much anticipated opening day of Ascot's 2025/26 racing season and winter well and truly banished, a festive crowd turned out in celebratory mood.
Passed in and retained to race by Widden Stud, promising filly Sassy for Sure broke the ice at Mornington on Thursday to credit her young sire Doubtland with a new winner.
Standing at Widden Victoria, Not a Single Doubt’s young sire son Doubtland was one of the sires we saw in Victoria last week and he produced a stylish debut winner at Warrnambool on Thursday.
It was a chilly morning at Widden Victoria last Friday but the stallion talent was hot with Southport Tycoon making his debut in the very same parade ring in which his sire Written Tycoon started his stud career back in 2007.
Widden Stud’s value sire Doubtland posted a debut winner at Murray Bridge on Wednesday when Sir Myka saluted as a short priced favourite.
The juvenile event over 1200m at Eagle Farm on Saturday was supposed to be a walk in the park for white hot favourite Space Rider, who missed a start in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic last night as first emergency, but as can happen in racing - expect the unexpected.
With so much stakes racing going on over the weekend it was easy to miss first winners for a couple of first season sires with Widden Stud’s Doubtland and Newhaven Park’s Cool Aza Beel both producing debut winners.
Widden Stud’s brilliant Not a Single Doubt stallion Doubtland made the best possible start to his stud career when siring a winner with his first runner at Bendigo on Saturday.
At the Widden Stud Victoria open day last Friday a quality roster of nine stallions were on show and breeders were also given the good news that Widden have now purchased what was Sun Stud and the Thompson family are very much committed to the Victorian breeding industry going forward.
The 2024 Magic Millions Yearling Sale was a busy one for Widden Stud selling 65 yearlings across Books 1 and 2 for $14.6million and particularly pleasing was the warm reception afforded their first season sires Anders, Russian Camelot (IRE), Dirty Work and Doubtland.
The weather was cold, but the stallions were hot at the Widden Stud Victoria stallion parade on Friday with a big crowd in attendance to see nine stallions representing a great mix of promising and proven sire talent.
Widden Stud are offering a great deal with six sons of champion sires available at a discounted rate for breeders who select two for their mares and all are Premium stallions on Breednet, so if you are breeding on a budget and can’t afford the big guns, let’s get testing some Hypothetical Matings on the sons of guns!