Best On Breeding

Mark Smith - Thursday August 30

John Singleton’s homebred mare Girl Tuesday was made a Breednet "One To Watch’ following a winning career debut in a 1400 metre maiden at Newcastle last Saturday and a colt from this celebrated family steps out in the same colours at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

A daughter of Street Cry (IRE), Girl Tuesday is a daughter of the star mare Tuesday Joy (Carnegie) who 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.

Tuesday Joy is yet to hit the heights of her half-sister, Sunday Joy, in the breeding barn.

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Both are daughters of the Group 1 Queensland Oaks winner Joie Denise (Danehill) who is out of the famed mare, Denise’s Joy.

A daughter of Sunday Silence, Sunday Joy has produced the 8-time Group 1 winner More Joyous (photo Mark Smith) who has made a promising start to her own broodmare career.


The daughter of More Than Ready (USA) has certainly been given every chance to succeed by Singleton, who paid for her to travel half a world away to Juddmonte Farm where she was covered by Frankel to southern hemisphere time.

The result of that mating was the filly Woman who was an impressive winner of a 3yoF maiden nearly a year ago at Canterbury in what has been her only start to date.

Following her rendezvous with Frankel, More Joyous was covered by Coolmore Stud’s champion Fastnet Rock.

She had a colt foal named More Sundays who kept up his dam’s perfect record when winning on debut at Geelong on August 6.

He tended to wander about in the straight on that occasion but when balanced up he hit the line strongly to win by two and a quarter lengths.

The David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig-trained colt was sent to Sydney in the hope of claiming a birth in the Group I Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill on September 22.

He puts his unbeaten record on the line in Saturday’s ATC Heritage Society Handicap (1300m) at Rosehill Gardens where he is to be ridden by Kerrin McEvoy.

The son of Fastnet Rock has been kept up to his work with a highly impressive barrier trial win on August 20.

After idling at the tail of the field, More Sundays stretched out in the closing stages in a manner that suggests he is primed for Saturday’s race.

The winner of 21 of her 33 starts and over $4.5 million, More Joyous lays claims to Group 1 wins in the AJC Flight Stakes, AJC George Main Stakes, MRC Toorak Handicap, ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes (twice), MRC Futurity Stakes, ATC Doncaster Handicap and ATC Queen Elizabeth Stakes,

After missing to Fastnet Rock in 2015, More Joyous foaled a Snitzel colt last spring and was bred back to the Arrowfield champion.

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