Leading Sydney jockey Nash Rawiller's judgment was vindicated when he convinced owner John Singleton to be at Caulfield to see his outstanding mare More Joyous win Saturday's Futurity Stakes.The beautifully-bred Gai Waterhouse-trained mare came away with her fourth Group One victory and her second at Caulfield having won the Toorak Handicap (1600m) there last spring.Singleton, who races the four-year-old under his Strawberry Hills Stud banner, said if it wasn't for him wanting to run More Joyous

Leading Sydney jockey Nash Rawiller's judgment was vindicated when he convinced owner John Singleton to be at Caulfield to see his outstanding mare More Joyous win Saturday's Futurity Stakes.

The beautifully-bred Gai Waterhouse-trained mare came away with her fourth Group One victory and her second at Caulfield having won the Toorak Handicap (1600m) there last spring.

Singleton, who races the four-year-old under his Strawberry Hills Stud banner, said if it wasn't for him wanting to run More Joyous in last year's Cox Plate, in which she finished fifth to So You Think, she would have made it 11 straight wins on Saturday.

"But I'll probably do it again this year," he said.

Sent out $1.45 favourite, More Joyous settled third and was given a lovely run by Rawiller before coming around the leaders King Mufhasa and Doubtful Jack and going on to score by three-quarters of a length.

Whobegotyou ($6.50) motored home from last of the 10 runners for second with Dao Dao ($26) 1-1/2 lengths away third, a half-head in front of King Mufhasa.

Rawiller was adamant that the advertising guru should be at Caulfield.

"I know he's had a lot of good horses but they don't come along all the time and you've got to make the most of it," Rawiller said.

"We can have a really enjoyable next three years with this mare but you've got to be here to enjoy it."

The effervescent Waterhouse was gushing again after landing her third Caulfield Group One win for the season having also won the Caulfield Cup with Descarado.

It was also her second Futurity win having won the race in 2007 with another mare, Aqua D'Amore.

"It was just so exciting. The pressure's on you when you've got a big-time horse," she said.

"Firstly, the public expect it and, most of all, the owners expect it and then all the connections expect it, so we're very relieved when she does what we know she can do.

"She's just so unflappable isn't she? It was nice with Dave, the gentleman who looks after her, the way she was just so relaxed before it. He didn't rush with the saddling of her and there was just a lovely calm before the storm."

The daughter of More Than Ready is not entirely at home racing the left-handed, or Melbourne way, which Waterhouse conceded.

"If you played tennis with your right arm all your life and went to Wimbledon to play with your left for two games you wouldn't be that happy either. It's the same thing," she said.

"She doesn't train on this leg, she doesn't race on this leg. But I'll tell you something, when she gets to Caulfield she knows how to use the other one."

Waterhouse said More Joyous, who has won 12 of her 16 starts and just under $1.9 million in prizemoney, would go back to Sydney where her main autumn mission was the $2 million Doncaster Mile (1600m) at Randwick on April 16.

Rawiller gave More Joyous the run of the race.

"It was magic, but that's the beauty of having a horse like her," he said.

"They've got to have the speed to put themselves in the race. I felt we were dictating the race early, I was making them roll to suit me."

"The track's quite firm here today and you wouldn't be at all surprised to see them changing legs a couple of times in the straight where they normally wouldn't.

"But once she balanced and Dao Dao started to come at me, she really found plenty."