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Stepitup's outstanding success in Singapore shines a light on his dam, the multiple stakeswinner and marvellous broodmare Ain't Seen Nothin'.

With her next foal by Dundeel eagerly awaited at Arrowfield Stud this spring after her first six foals have all won with three of them stakes winners - Stepitup (Hussonet), Bachman (All American) and Ain'tnofallenstar (Starcraft).

That perfect record and Ain't Seen Nothin's affinity with a range of stallions are good omens for her unraced progeny, a 3YO Starcraft gelding with trainer Mark Minervini, and a yearling sister to Bachman, as well as her coming foal from the first crop of six-time G1 winner Dundeel.

Canberra trainer Barbara Joseph is well-qualified to explain what made Ain't Seen Nothin' special as a racehorse and what she brings to the breeding barn.

Joseph bought the yearling daughter of Nothin' Leica Dane for $20,000 at the 2001 Inglis Classic Sale, trained her in Canberra and raced her in partnership with Dennis Higgs and Ron Ball.

"I bought her because I loved the way she walked and she was related to Patou, a filly I initially trained,” she said.

Patou won eight races, but is best-known as the dam of Polar Success, winner of the 2003 Golden Slipper.

Ain't Seen Nothin' was tough to educate as a 2YO and patience was needed to overcome her tendency to run to the outside rail but her racing career began in spectacular fashion.

"She ran third in her first race as a spring 3YO and then won six in a row,”Joseph said. “She had a great will to win, there wasn't a race where she didn't try her best, and she could run on all sorts of tracks."

Ain't Seen Nothin's winning streak culminated with a record-setting victory in the Listed Keith Nolan Classic at Kembla Grange. Her 3YO campaign ended with a second in the G3 Adrian Knox Stakes and fourth in Tuesday Joy's G1 Australian Oaks.

The following spring Joseph took Ain't Seen Nothin' to Melbourne for her second stakes win in the Listed Let's Elope Stakes and a sequence of gallant G1 performances - third to Mummify and Grey Song in the Underwood Stales; fifth in Mummify's Caulfield Cup and fourth in the Mackinnon Stakes won by Casual Pass.

"It was a new experience for me to race a top horse in Melbourne. She was a million dollar horse for us and she helped me immensely,” Joseph said.

Ain't Seen Nothin' added a third Listed success and three Group placings to her record before she retired with earnings of more than $600,000 in 2004.

Subsequently purchased for $460,000 at the 2005 Inglis Easter Broodmare Sale, she has been part of the Arrowfield/Planette Thoroughbred broodmare band ever since.

Joseph was the underbidder on Stepitup at the 2011 Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale.

The team she now prepares in partnership with her son Paul Jones includes Secret Slave, a 2YO Equiano filly from Ain't Seen Nothin's first foal Hidden Charges (Charge Forward).