'TDN Rising Star' Doubt I'm Dreaming (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt {Aus}) died on Tuesday at Mornington after suffering a suspected heart attack after track work, according to Racing.com. The 2-year-old colt earned the Rising Star distinction with a three-length win in the Listed Valley Pearl S. on debut at Moonee Valley on Mar. 24, and was third in Caulfield's Listed Thoroughbred Club Cup a month later for trainer John McArdle. Newgate SF and China Horse Club had bought into the A$210,000 Magic Millions National Sale yearling following his debut and he had been considered an early favourite for the G1 Caulfield Guineas.
“I was watching him canter around quietly like he normally does and I turned my head away to watch another horse that was leaving the trotting ring to go out onto the track to gallop and when I looked back he'd stopped and become staggery and by the time I had run down to the horse he was on the ground and died shortly after,” McArdle told Racing.com. “He appeared to be perfect and there'd been absolutely nothing wrong with him other than the day before he'd had a couple of boils come up on one side, which is nothing unusual at this time of the year and he'd been treated for those.”
McArdle was philosophical about his loss on the same day that track work rider Donna Philpot had died at Bendigo.
“It's upsetting and very unfortunate and a big loss for a small stable like ours to lose a horse of his calibre but as I said to the owners yesterday, in the light of what happened yesterday my track rider and all of our staff went home safe and unfortunately up at Bendigo Donna Philpot didn't,” he said. “In the bigger scheme of things that really puts things into perspective.”
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