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A late season surge has taken Not A Single Doubt's season total of juvenile winners to 20, level with I Am Invincible and just one behind fellow Arrowfield resident Snitzel on the juvenile sires’ premiership for winners.

A late season surge that included a weekend double has taken Not A Single Doubt's season total of juvenile winners to 20, level with I Am Invincible and just one behind fellow Arrowfield resident Snitzel on the juvenile sires’ premiership for winners.

Last season Not A Single Doubt set a 14-year record of 25 Australian 2YO winners, a figure that is unlikely to be matched in the final week of this season.

However, he has added five new juvenile winners in the past month to again figure prominently in the standings.

On Saturday at Kembla Grange Peter and Paul Snowden lined up debutant Not A Gypsy whose one-length victory was achieved despite racing wide and greenly up the straight.

Not A Gypsy is a brother of multiple Group winner Gypsy Diamond, both out of the winning Zabeel mare Gypsy Tucker, a descendant of Ciboulette, also ancestress of champion sires Flying Spur and Encosta de Lago.

Gypsy Tucker is based at Arrowfield Stud for her owners Ron Finemore and John Leaver and is foaling to High Chaparral this spring.

Snowden Racing purchased Not A Gypsy for $200,000 from the Arrowfield draft in 2014 with his breeders remaining in the ownership.

On Sunday at Hawkesbury the filly Shacked Up made her first race day appearance in the 1000m 2YO Maiden Plate.

She took early control of the lead and kept up a strong gallop to score comfortably by 2.3 lengths for owner-breeders Arrowfield and John Leaver and trainer Gerald Ryan.

Shacked Up is the last foal of Arrowfield gem mare Urge To Merge (Last Tycoon) whose other foals to race include G1 winners Master Of Design (Redoute's Choice) and Suntagonal (Octagonal).

Shacked Up's pedigree page is enriched by Urge To Merge's stellar siblings: South African champion Tracy's Element, dam of Australian Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy, G1 winner and ire Danasinga and Group winners Topasannah, Cullen and Towkay.