Monday, 20 November 2017: Not A Single Doubt mare Payroll scored the biggest win of her career with a tough performance in the G3 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Hillside on a day when her sire was represented by four metropolitan winners.

The Richard Laming-trained Payroll had been twice a runner-up at G2 level including at her previous start in the Matriarch Stakes to Savapinksi at Flemington seven days prior.
Ridden by Damien Oliver, Payroll  overhauled European raider Kidmenever (Baltic King) by a short head with veteran Jacquinot Bay (Galileo) third.

Payroll

The 5YO Payroll (Not A Single Doubt x Workhard by Red Ransom) has four wi was bought by Laming for $80,000 at the 2014 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale from the Macquarie Stud draft and now has won four times with eight placings from 22 starts and earnings of $449,650.
Payroll’s dam Workhard is a half-sister to Flying Celebrity (Success Express), the dam of Macau stakes winner Luen On Treasure (Dane Shadow).
Workhard has had three foals to race for two stakes winners with Payroll’s three quarter brother Arbeitsam (Snitzel) being a Listed winner.
Payroll’s second dam is Fast Work (Palace Music), a winner of three races and a half-sister to dual G1 winner Bawalaksana (Straight Strike) and G3 winner Damaschino (Last Tycoon).
Damaschino is also the dam of G1 placed Shaaheq (Redoute’s Choice).
Workhard was passed in for $18,000 at this year’s Australian Broodmare Sale in foal to Scissor Kick, having failed to get in foal for three consecutive years after foaling Arbeitsam.
Payroll is one of 48 stakes winners by Not A Single Doubt, who is currently fifth on the Australian general sires’ table with earnings of $4,950,929 behind Snitzel, High Chaparral, Fastnet Rock and Street Cry.
Not A Single Doubt has sired six stakes winners this season, headed by Caulfield Guineas winner Mighty Boss .
His other winners on Saturday with a Doomben double by Singular Sensation  and Winter Bride  and win at Rosehill by Pretty Fast .
• Irish import The Taj Mahal recorded his first Australian win in the G2 Zipping Classic at Sandown Hillside, providing his champion sire Galileo with his 266th stakes winner.
Having his first start for trainer Robert Hickmott, The Taj Mahal  (Galileo x You’resothrilling by Storm Cat) sprinted clear to score by three and a half lengths from his stablemate and 2016 Melbourne Cup winner Almandin .

The Taj Mahal

It was a fitting quinella result for Hickmott on his last day as private trainer for leading owner Lloyd Williams.
Hickmott, who has worked for Williams for 16 years and was retained as his trainer since 2009, is starting up his own stable. He will be replaced by another Macedon Lodge employee Liam Howley.
The winner is by Galileo out of Youresothrilling making him a brother to this year’s star juvenile fillly Happily, four-time G1 winner Gleneagles and Irish 1000 Guineas heroine, Marvellous.
Galileo will be crowned champion sire in Britain and Ireland for the eighth successive year this year.
• The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Long Time Ago won the G3 Summoned Stakes at Sandown Hillside to provide his champion sire Redoute’s Choice with his 100th Group winner among 152 stakes winner.
A bold plan by co-trainers Waterhouse and Bott to target the Summoned Stakes first up with Long Time Ago (Redoute’s Choice x Once Were Wild by Johannesburg) came to fruition when she beat Mrs Gardenia (Rip Van inkle) and Oregon’s Day (Domesday).
The lightly raced four-year-old, who had not raced since August, is raced by her breeder John Singleton’s Strawberry Hill Stud.

Long Time Ago (inside)

Long Time Ago  (Redoute’s Choice x Once Were Wild by Johannesburg) has earned $158,200 from three wins and one second in eight career starts.
Her dam Once Were Wild won the G1 ATC Australian Oaks and has also produced the three-year-old filly Wild About Her (Big Brown), who has been placed for trainer Chris Waller.
Once Were Wild, who won seven races, is a half-sister to the stakes-placed Speeding (Testa Rossa) and six other winners.
Long Time Ago’s third dam Sycamore (Twig Moss) was a winning sister to G1 WA Oaks winner Contwig and Listed winner Monak.
Contwig is the second dam of Indikator (Sandtrap), a winner of 18 races including the G3 Rotorua Cup four times.
Redoute's Choice was also represented by a winning double at Rosehill on Saturday by Redouble  and Glenall .
• Lindsay Park-trained youngster Long Leaf won the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes at Sandown Hillside to provide Fastnet Rock with his 125th stakes winner.
The promising colt beat the debut filly Oohood (I Am Invincible) by a short head with Sanglier (Albrecht) third.
David Hayes confirmed that the Coolmore-raced Long Leaf , a $750,000 NZB Premier Sale purchase for BBA Ireland from the Curraghmore Stud draft, would be aimed at the Karaka Million at Ellerslie in January.
Foaled and raised at Coolmore, Long Leaf is the first winner for Frustrating, a winning Stravinsky daughter of the celebrated Parfore, whose long list of stakes-winning offspring is headed by G1 winners Terravista, Tiger Tees, G2 winner Ball Of Muscle and Singapore Horse of the Year and sire Super Easy.
Frustrating has a yearling filly by Fastnet Rock and was covered by the champion sire again last spring.
Long Leaf opened his account with a narrow victory at Morphettville last month and took plenty of benefit from that outing.
• Dubawi’s 7YO veteran Jungle Edge put up another tenacious performance for his 12th career victory and third at Group level in the G3 Kevin Heffernan Stakes at Sandown.
Bred by his former trainer Chris Strickland, Jungle Edge  is from a solid female family.
His dam Jungle Girl has produced four winners from as many foals to race, with her own dam Out Of Africa also maintaining a perfect record with seven winners from seven runners.
His victory comes a week after Ball Of Muscle , another member of Dubawi’s last Australian crop, won a Listed race at Flemington