Oaks Goal for Premier Purchase

Allowed to find her feet by Damian Lane, Kenedna found the line with a well timed run to defeat Extra Olives by a length and a half.

"She travelled well in the run and really let rip late," said Damian Lane.

Darren Weir has lofty goals for the daughter of Not a Single Doubt with the Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks (2000m) on May 6 as a likely target.

"She's been crying out for blinkers, but I just had to find the right time to put them on and they;d done the trick," said Weir.

"I like to put them on when they are really fit and ready to go, they can tend to over-race so they need to be rock hard fit.

"She'll run a lot further as she has such a relaxed attitude. The Australasian Oaks is on the radar, so she'd have to get ten furlongs, but she's giving every indication that she might."

An $80,000 Inglis Premier purchase from the Arrowfield draft for Darren Weir/John Foote Bloodstock/ MDR Bloodstock, Kenedna has won three of nine starts earning $138,210.

Bred and offered for sale by Arrowfield, Kenedna is a three-quarter sister by Not a Single Doubt to Group II winner Spill the Beans and is one of three winners from well related Falbrav (IRE) mare Miss Dodwell.

A minor winner, Miss Dodwell is a half-sister to Group III winner Yammer and stakes-winner Blab, the dam of Group I winner Speak Fondly, while further back in the family are Australian Horse of the Year, Bounding Away, who everything from a Golden Slipper to an AJC Oaks, and Group I winning stayer Glastonbury.

Arrowfield Stud will offer the current yearling from Miss Dodwell, a filly by Smart Missile, at the 2017 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale as Lot 228.

Miss Dodwell has a weanling filly by Spill the Beans sire Snitzel and is back in foal to him again.

Kenedna is the 36^th stakes-winner for Arrowfield Stud's Not a Single Doubt, who has nine entries for the 2017 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, click here to see them.