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Gilgai Farm-bred filly becomes 76th stakes winner for Not A Single Doubt
The Gilgai Farm-bred Gimmie Par (3 f ex Naturale by Bel Esprit) stepped up in Saturday's Quezette Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) and became the 76th stakes winner for Arrowfield Stud's pensioned sire Not A Single Doubt (Redoute's Choice).
Having her third career start, Peter Moody does not expect Gimmie Par to have a taxing spring despite her stylish first-up win at Caulfield.
Sent off the $2.70 favourite under Jamie Kah, Gimme Par held-off the fast-finishing Heresy (Street Boss) ($12) by a half-length with Scorched Earth (Nicconi) ($15) the same margin off third.
Gimmie Par is a half-sister to Ole Kirk (Written Tycoon) who won the Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) last spring, Moody said he would resist the temptation of stretching Gimme Par too far in trip this preparation.
"She doesn't strike me as a (Thousand) Guineas filly," Moody said.
"The mile here, I think that might just test her out at this point in time, so I think we'll keep her at that five-and-a-half, six-furlong mark and pick our way carefully through them.
"There are no lofty targets at this point, so we'll wait for her to mature a bit more."
Moody said while the filly's win on Saturday was good, he expects there to be plenty of improvement.
"She's came into it a little bit soft as we didn't trial her in the lead up so she is open to nice improvement which is pleasing," Moody said.
"Thanks to Rick Jamieson up at Gilgai, she is a lovely filly and now a very valuable little girl with a Group win beside her name."
Kah was aboard the filly for the first time in Gimme Par's three-start career and said for a little filly she had a big motor.
"I was a bit wide in the end but she is a little filly so you don't really want to get muddled up inside them so I was not too fussed in the end when we were three-wide because we had clean air," Kah said.
Gimmie Par is one of two winners out of unraced Bel Esprit (Royal Academy) mare Naturale, a sister to Peter Moody's unbeaten champion Black Caviar (Bel Esprit), being out of Helsinge (Desert Sun).
Helsinge produced three other winners including three-time Group One winner and now Vinery Stud-based sire All Too Hard (Casino Prince).
Gimmie Par's third dam is Scandinavia (Snippets), dam of eight winners including Galaxy Handicap (Gr 1, 1100m) winner and sire Magnus (Flying Spur), Group Two winners Wilander (Exceed And Excel) and Scandiva (Fastnet Rock) and Listed winner Arctic Flight (Flying Spur).
Naturale meanwhile produced a colt by Written Tycoon (Iglesia) two days ago after missing in both 2019 and 2018.
Not A Single Doubt has sired 16 Group One winners to date and his sire sons at stud include Newgate Farm's Extreme Choice, who was crowned champion first season sire in Australia last season and the Widden Stud-based Anders. Later in the day, Samizdat (6 g ex Sambar by More Than Ready) provided the son of Redoute's Choice (Danehill) with a stakes double when he won the Belmont Newmarket (Listed, 1200m).
The gelding was a $325,000 purchase by Gangemi Racing at the 2017 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale from the draft of Amelia Park racing & Breeding and his victory on Saturday took his record to seven wins and two placings in 19 starts with his prize money now totalling $495,200.