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Arrowfield Stud graduate Kenedna completed a best ever spring carnival for her sire Not A Single Doubt when she added a valuable Group success to her record in the G2 Matriarch Stakes.

The 5YO mare, who has worked her way back to best form this season, burst through late to defeat a strong field of mares in the $300,000 feature over 2000m.

Kenedna is Not A Single Doubt’s sixth stakeswinner this spring after two-time Group winner Winter Bride, 2YO Group winner Dubious, Group winner Cool Passion and Listed winners From Within and Doubt Defying.

A multiple Group winner as a 3YO, Kenedna’s 4YO campaign ended after only one start due to soreness and her owners considered sending her to stud until trainer Darren Weir suggested she deserved another chance.

“She developed so much. She’s became so big and strong that I suggested maybe another preparation might be good,” said Weir.

Kenedna’s co-owner Mick Johnston conferred with his partners and they agreed she should be put back into work.

Kenedna (Not A Single Doubt x Miss Dodwell by Falbrav) has now won three of her 21 starts and more than $740,000, a fine return on the $80,000 Weir, John Foote and MDR Bloodstock paid for her at the 2015 Melbourne Premier Sale.

As a 3YO Kenedna was just beaten by Egg Tart in the G1 Australasian Oaks in Adelaide before winning the G2 Doomben Roses and running fourth in the G1 Queensland Oaks.

Mick Johnston, a former AFL star, named the horse after his grandparents Ken and Edna Johnston. He has had a strong association with Weir as one of the owners of G1 winner Humidor.

Kenedna is one of the six stakes winners at 2000m and beyond by Not A SIngle Doubt, proof of his ability to get winners over a big range of distances.

The breed also train on as older horses with 46% of his 118 stakes wins achieved by his 4YO and older sons and daughters.

Kenedna’s dam Miss Dodwell, by Japan Cup winner Falbrav, is an obvious source of stamina although she herself won at 1200m and belongs to a largely speed-oriented family.

She is also the dam of precocious multiple Group-winning sprinter Spill The Beans (Snitzel), who is now at stud.

Her younger half-sister Full of Beans (Smart Missile) has had one win from three starts while that filly's unraced 3YO full sister Kevikki, a $240,000 buy, is with Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young.

Arrowfield has since repeated both of Miss Dodwell’s most successful matings, retaining her 2YO daughter Lady Patricia (Snitzel) while a brother to Kenedna by Not A Single Doubt was born last month. The mare was then back to Snitzel.

Miss Dodwell herself is a half-sister to G3 winner Yammer (Bellotto) and Listed scorer Blab (Flying Spur), the dam of G1 winner Speak Fondly (Northern Meteor) and Wild And Proud (Snowland).

Third dam is Who Can Say (Sovereign Edition) produced multiple G1 winner Bounding Away (Biscay), the dam of G2 winner In A Bound (Ashkalani) and G1 winner Glastonbury (Sir Tristram).