The wind and rain kept prominent owner John Singleton away from Randwick on Saturday but the conditions didn't stop his filly More Joyous showing up and giving her rivals a bath in the Group One Flight Stakes.The victory was trainer Gai Waterhouse's seventh in the 1600-metre feature."Poor visibility kept her owner away but it didn't stop her," Waterhouse said.Singleton's racing manager Duncan Grimley said his boss cancelled plans to travel to Randwick because of the wild weather."He's still reco

The wind and rain kept prominent owner John Singleton away from Randwick on Saturday but the conditions didn't stop his filly More Joyous showing up and giving her rivals a bath in the Group One Flight Stakes.

The victory was trainer Gai Waterhouse's seventh in the 1600-metre feature.

"Poor visibility kept her owner away but it didn't stop her," Waterhouse said.

Singleton's racing manager Duncan Grimley said his boss cancelled plans to travel to Randwick because of the wild weather.

"He's still recovering from his hip operation and it was too cold and wet for him today, so he's staying where it's warm," Grimley said.

Waterhouse was full of praise for the filly but said she would not race again until the autumn.

"She'll go out for a break now and will blow them away in the autumn and the spring, you just stick with her and back her in whatever she runs in," Waterhouse said.

"She was just too good for them. She was not suited by the slippery and sliding conditions and she still won."

Heavy rain had some punters going cold on More Joyous who drifted from $1.65 to start the $2.30 favourite on the track which started the day as a dead five but was a slow seven by the time they ran the Flight which was race five.

More Joyous' only previous run on a track worse than dead was the Golden Slipper where she beat only one runner home on the heavy surface.

Ridden by Nash Rawiller, More Joyous was travelling third throughout behind leader Hurtle Myrtle with Sister Madly in second spot.

On straightening More Joyous warmed to the task and raced to the inside of Hurtle Myrtle with Sister Madly to her outside.

Rawiller asked the filly for a little extra and she responded with a strong burst to defeat the Anthony Cummings-trained Sister Madly by 1-1/2 lengths with the Matthew Smith-trained Hurtle Myrtle a neck away third.

Cummings said Sister Madly would run in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield on October 14 and said she should have won the Flight but slipped near the 200 metres, and jockey Blake Shinn agreed with the Randwick trainer.

"I'm very disappointed, she would have won, she nearly went over," Shinn said.

Smith was delighted with Hurtle Myrtle and said she would go to the paddock after a job well done.

"That was my first Group One runner and I'm extremely happy," he said.