New 2yo Winner More Joy for Singleton and Harvey

14-02-2012

LATER GATOR, an eye-catching four lengths debut juvenile winner at Canterbury on Friday night, provides more joy for longtime mates John Singleton and Gerry Harvey, although they do not share ownership.

Rather, this daughter of More Than Ready and the non winning Flying Spur mare Now the World tracing back to the wonderful race mare and matriarch Denise’s Joy, was bred by Harvey at his Baramul stud, Widden Valley and purchased for $180,000 by Singleton’s Strawberry Hill Stud, Mt White, NSW when it was offered under the banner of Westbury stud at the New Zealand yearling sales.

Harvey also bred Now the World and her three-quarter Danehill sister World Peace, a Blue Diamond Preview winner and Blue Diamond Stakes third, and brother Conatus, a Sydney winner and proven sire standing at Plaintree Farm,Toowoomba.  They were from Light Up the World, a good class Rory’s Jester sprinter bred by Hall of Fame trainer T.J. Smith. He trained Denise’s Joy, a Seventh Hussar filly bred by his brother N.C. Smith and T.J. Powell and winner of 13 races, including the Victoria Oaks, Queensland Oaks, West Australian Derby and MRC Underwood Stakes. She was runner up in the Golden Slipper, Champagne Stakes and Queensland Derby and third in the AJC Oaks, Australasian Champion Stakes and Caulfield Thousand Guineas.

Denise’s Joy’s ten foals only resulted in one winner of consequence, the Danehill Queensland Oaks winner Joi Denise, producer for the Arrowfield stud of Sunday Joy, a southern hemisphere time Sunday Silence AJC Oaks winner, and for Singleton’s Strawberry Hill stud the Carnegie multiple Group1 winning filly Tuesday Joy. She has her first foal, an August 19 More Than Ready colt, in the Inglis Easter yearling catalogue.

This colt is nearly a three-quarter brother to the Singleton bred and raced More Joyous, a More Than Ready mare out of Sunday Joy who has won 15 races and earned $2.4million. More Joyous and Friday night’s winner Later Gator are both trained by T.J. Smith’s daughter Gai Waterhouse.

 Courtesy of Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service