Carnegie's top-class daughter Tuesday Joy (pictured), a G1 winner at Randwick during last season’s Autumn Carnival, confirmed that she should be in for another rich harvest this year by putting in the run of the race in Saturday’s Chipping Norton Stakes.
Tackling the 1600m second up, Tuesday Joy turned into the straight in an unpromising position as her stablemate Desert War, last season’s middle-distance galloper of the year, led the charge to the line. Travelling easily but with nowhere to go, Tuesday Joy’s jockey Nash Rawiller was forced to barge his way out – collecting a suspension in the process - allowing his brave mount finally to get into the clear. She finished strongest of all but failed by a rapidly diminishing head to overhaul the winner Casino Prince.
Frustrating though this luckless defeat was for her connections, they at least have the satisfaction of knowing that their star mare has gone into plenty of notebooks as the horse to follow for the remainder of the Carnival.
On the same card, leading first-season sire Exceed And Excel had another black type runner in Mazuka, who was third in the Kindergarten Stakes on his debut, only half a length behind the more experienced pair of Mr Profumo and Krupt.
Four-year-old New Zealand-bred Cape Cross mare Like Me Wild went within inches of causing the boilover of the day when finishing a short-head second to odds-on favourite Hot Danish, who had to dig deep to win her sixth consecutive race and fourth consecutive Stakes win.
