The world stage awaits star mare Tuesday Joy following her sparkling comeback to racing in the Group Two Apollo Stakes at Rosehill.The win capped a great day for trainer Gai Waterhouse who also claimed stakes wins at Caulfield on Saturday with Gold Water and Theseo before her seventh Apollo victory.With Waterhouse on holidays in Switzerland, it was left to jubilant owner John Singleton to outline plans for Tuesday Joy who suffered a bleeding attack in the spring, forcing her to miss the Melbourn
The world stage awaits star mare Tuesday Joy following her sparkling comeback to racing in the Group Two Apollo Stakes at Rosehill.
The win capped a great day for trainer Gai Waterhouse who also claimed stakes wins at Caulfield on Saturday with Gold Water and Theseo before her seventh Apollo victory.
With Waterhouse on holidays in Switzerland, it was left to jubilant owner John Singleton to outline plans for Tuesday Joy who suffered a bleeding attack in the spring, forcing her to miss the Melbourne Cup.
"The plan is to run her in the Chipping Norton Stakes and then go to Dubai for the Dubai Duty Free," Singleton said.
"If she goes well there, we will look at taking her to France and keeping her over there for the Arc de Triomphe later in the year.
"It's such a shame that she hasn't raced in a Melbourne Cup. She has been favourite two years in a row and equine influenza stopped her the first time and then last year she bled and wasn't allowed to race."
The 2008 Melbourne Cup winner Viewed was an eye-catching fourth on his return to racing in the Apollo (1400m) which was robbed of some of its gloss when three-year-old Desuetude was withdrawn when the track deteriorated after a storm.
Hurried Choice ($7.50) took up the running and was briefly challenged by Raheeb in the straight but he ran out of steam while Tuesday Joy ($2.50 fav) was full of running down the outside.
She gathered in Hurried Choice to win by 1-1/4 lengths with the runner-up's stablemate Gallant Tess ($4.20) holding her position for third another length away.
Blake Shinn rode Tuesday Joy for the first time but may have some competition in the future with Nash Rawiller, who rode the Waterhouse winners in Melbourne on Saturday, and the Hong Kong based Darren Beadman in the mix.
"Darren is always looming and has first refusal," Singleton said.
"Nash Rawiller has also ridden her. It's a great position to be in to have riders like this for her."
Shinn said it was an honour to be on the triple Group One winner.
"It's such a great thrill to win a mare like her," Shinn said.
"It was an honour to ride her, a real buzz."
Trainer Bart Cummings was happy with the performance of Viewed and also seventh placed Moatize.
"They will probably be split up after this with Viewed to go to weight for age races and Moatize to handicaps," Cummings said.
The Group One weight-for-age Chipping Norton Stakes is at Randwick on March 7.