Racehorse TALK

Think its MJ by panels or a lottery.

Would be surprised if either of the QLD'ers got up though.

GW says both her glamour 3yo's are good things. 

Let's hope poor old Percy Punter who reads the Daily Telegraph and ventures out to the races as a virgin punter understands the concept of risk versus return.

They wanted to get stuck into the McDonalds for over confidence with Weekend Hussler and the Caulfield Cup.

It will be a good test of how her stable (which I think is going awful atm) is firinng.

In form MJ, MR, and Dreamscape would be a bout $1.80 each and would be bolting in. Should give us a good idea of whether or not she is going to feature this Autumn.

More Joyous was beaten first up last time in the Sheraco before going on to win the Tea Rose and Flight...I think the best is yet to come for her as the distances increase. Would be wary about taking a short price over 1200m tomorrow.

One of the more interesting things to watch this autumn will be to see how far they can make her run. More Than Ready not known for his stayers, but there is plenty of stamina on the dam side with Tuesday Joy, Sunday Joy, Joie Denise, Denise's Joy, etc.

Little Surfer Girl, an Encosta daughter of Special Harmony showed some good form in her first campaign. Wouldn't have had to improve that much to be a threat in some of the big races.

Trim and So Anyway very consistent in good grade, and look up to this.

Tim Martin's filly Indian Ocean...watch for her late.

I'm backing the Ocean here.

More Joyous back with a bang


By Mathew Toogood
SYDNEY, Feb 13 AAP - Gai Waterhouse's prediction glamour filly More Joyous would go through the autumn undefeated got off to a great start in the Group Two Light Fingers Stakes at Randwick.
In a dominant performance, More Joyous led all the way to assert her authority on the field.
The Flight Stakes winner beat the Peter Snowden-trained Trim ($3.10) by 1-3/4 lengths with Queensland visitor Sweepstaking ($6.50) 2-1/4 lengths further back in third.
Waterhouse was excited after the return of the $2.20 favourite in the 1200m feature and sounded a warning to her rivals.
"I just love the way she showed her blistering speed, she skipped away from her rivals and as I said in the spring, you won't see anything bar her heels this preparation," Waterhouse said.
There were some doubts surrounding More Joyous following her barrier trial at Randwick on January 29 when she finished third to stablemates Dreamscape and Rock Kingdom.
But Waterhouse was always confident the filly would show her class on race day.
"I had to have a little laugh after she won because everyone was pulling on her tail and mine going into the race and I just thought class would prevail, and it did," the trainer said.
"She's got a lot more improvement in her too, I can assure you."
While Waterhouse expects the filly to continue on her winning way through races such as the Surround Stakes and Coolmore Classic, the rest of her campaign is still undecided.
Waterhouse is keen to tackle the AJC Oaks but owner John Singleton has never won a Doncaster and wants to head that way.
"I want to run her in the Doncaster but Gai wants to run her in the Oaks. One race is worth $1.5 million and the other is worth less than half that, which one would you go for?," Singleton said.
Jockey Nash Rawiller labelled More Joyous a special filly following the win.
"I couldn't be happier, I just let her use her cruising speed," Rawiller said.
"What she does is she runs 11 seconds (per 200m) when everything else is running 12s."
Kerrin McEvoy felt he had a chance on Trim with about 200m to run but More Joyous responded and held her advantage.
"That's where the acid test goes on when you are first-up from a spell but she gave me the impression she was always going to find something," Rawiller said.
"It's always good to get back (winning) because in my own heart I walked away a little disappointed after her trial. But last preparation she did only beat Rhyno Chaser by half a length in her trial so I kept that in my head and that's what she is, she's a racehorse."
Gillian Heinrich was pleased with the performance of Sweepstaking to finish third behind two very good fillies.
"She was beaten by the best filly in Australia," Heinrich said.
"Our filly needs the speed on and even though they went along I would've liked for her to have been further back, but you can't do that on a slow track."

Not sure why but I doubted her a tad.

not any more


In saying that she won't win the Doncaster

I hope a club near me puts up $5,000,000 to bring More Joyous and Typhoon Tracy together.

I don't think Nash rode her right out. Absolutely dominant, eased down a little on the line.
Great call from Mark Shean about the winner "Gai's golden girl" 

Mmm well unless MJ gets about a 20L headstart that would be a poor spectacle - and a dang insult to a mare of TT's quality.

You don't think More Joyous would be competitive Steve ?

Mmm I did have a few too many of these  plus  and some  at the time of posting...


still I don't think there's any evidence at this point to suggest she's anything beyond your top 3yo filly of any season...I'm not knocking her but I don't look at her as anything extraordinary. She's had one run in Listed mares grade for a 3rd.

I presume she's Coolmore bound? I think NZ has some top fillies this season - so hopefully we'll be seeing some come over during the autumn.