One To Watch - Newcastle

Mark Smith - Saturday August 25

It was the final race of the day at Newcastle but it was worth waiting for.

John Singleton’s four-year-old homebred mare Girl Tuesday made her much anticipated career debut in a 1400 metre maiden. Backed as if unbeatable the daughter of Street Cry (IRE) had it all to do when well back in the field with 250 metres left to run.

Rory Hutchings angled the Chris Waller-trained mare to the outside to mount her challenge and so quickly did she finish she won eased down by two and a half-lengths over the Manhattan Rain gelding Holy Reign.

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As her name suggests Girl Tuesday is a daughter of Singleton’s star mare Tuesday Joy. 


The daughter of Carnegie was among the best of her era, winning seven and placing in nine of her 24 starts with earnings of $3,240,450.

A half-sister to Group 1 AJC Australian Oaks heroine Sunday Joy, Tuesday Joy won four raced at the highest level, the Coolmore Classic, The BMW, Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Chipping Norton Stakes.

While her half-sister Sunday Joy has produced the 8-time Group 1 winner More Joyous, Tuesday Joy’s broodmare career is to date decidedly more modest.

Girl Tuesday is her fifth foal and the first four have earned a combined total of four wins, none of any significance, between them.

A daughter of the Group 1 Queensland Oaks winner Joie Denise (Danehill) and a granddaughter of the famed Denise’s Joy, Tuesday Joy has a 3yo Snitzel filly named Tuesday Special who is yet to race.

After missing to Snitzel in 2015 and Savabeel in 2016, Tuesday Joy was covered by Savabeel again last spring.

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