Multiple G1-winning Carnegie mare, Tuesday Joy (pictured) won her first victory of the campaign on Saturday when taking the $200,000 G2 Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley.
Benefiting from her opening prep at Caulfield a fortnight ago, she challenged well in the straight and prevailed by three-quarters of a length from the 2007 winner of the race Devil Moon.
Everything this spring is geared towards a tilt at the Melbourne Cup, with her trainer, Gai Waterhouse mapping out the Turnball Stakes in three weeks' time as her next likely start, followed by either the Caulfield Cup or Cox Plate.
Bred by her owner John Singleton of Strawberry Hill Stud, Tuesday Joy is out of the Danehill mare, Joie Denise, winner of the Queensland Oaks. Tuesday Joy's half-sister, the G1 winner Sunday Joy, also was victorious in the Stocks Stakes back in 2003.
At Morphettville, the New Zealand-trained Cape Cross gelding, Capecover successfully plundered the spoils in the Listed Tokyo City Cup.
This was his first run outside his native land for the promising stayer, and he will now look to back up in the Naturalism Stakes next week. He has been allotted 50kg in both the cups and his trainer, Alexander Fieldes, will be hoping he earns the necessary qualification money to get a run.
Out of the unraced Zabeel mare Set Up, he is a half-brother to champion New Zealand stayer Upsetthym, who won the G1 Auckland Cup and from the family of Epsom Derby winner Slip Anchor.
The regally-bred Predatory Pricer won his first Stakes race on Saturday when taking the Listed Ming Dynasty Handicap over 1400m at Rosehill. Bred by Meringo Stud Farm, he is by leading US third-crop sire Street Cry, and a half-brother to millionaire globetrotting sprinter Takeover Target.
Street Cry has enjoyed phenomenal early success in his stud career in the US, siring six G1 winners. His son Street Sense, the only horse ever to have won the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and then go on to glory in the Kentucky Derby, stands for Darley at Aberdeen for the first time this year at a fee of $55,000 (inc GST).
