Multiple Group One winner Tuesday Joy will begin a new career in the breeding barn with trainer Gai Waterhouse confirming the mare's retirement.Bred and owned by flamboyant businessman John Singleton, Tuesday Joy failed to please Waterhouse in a crucial track gallop on Monday.The four-time Group One winner had not shown her usual zest for racing while preparing for a spring campaign which was to include a tilt at the Melbourne Cup for which she was named.Waterhouse was already racing the clock t

Multiple Group One winner Tuesday Joy will begin a new career in the breeding barn with trainer Gai Waterhouse confirming the mare's retirement.

Bred and owned by flamboyant businessman John Singleton, Tuesday Joy failed to please Waterhouse in a crucial track gallop on Monday.

The four-time Group One winner had not shown her usual zest for racing while preparing for a spring campaign which was to include a tilt at the Melbourne Cup for which she was named.

Waterhouse was already racing the clock to get Tuesday Joy to the Melbourne Cup as the mare returned from a spell fatter than usual then had an injury scare earlier this month before x-rays cleared her of damage to a leg.

It was the third successive year that Singleton's Cup dreams for the six-year-old were shattered.

Tuesday Joy was being aimed at the 2007 Melbourne Cup before equine influenza ruined her chances of competing and 12 months ago she bled during a lead-up race and incurred an automatic three-month ban.

She returned in the autumn to win the Apollo and Group One Chipping Norton Stakes but didn't fire in her international debut in the Dubai Duty Free, finishing a distant ninth to Gladiatorus.

Despite Tuesday Joy's retirement, Singleton could still be represented in the Melbourne Cup this year by the Bart Cummings-trained Joe Blow who he also owns.

Tuesday Joy is by Carnegie out of grand producing mare Joie Denise who died just weeks ago.

A half-sister to 2003 AJC Australian Oaks winner Sunday Joy, she won seven of her 24 starts and was placed another nine times for more than $3.2 million in prizemoney.

Singleton is looking into the possibility of sending Tuesday Joy to American-based stallion Big Brown but if the mating can't be organised she will be served by More Than Ready in Australia this spring.