You could hear the cheers in Newcastle and the Central Coast from as far as Rosehill racecourse as the Gai Waterhouse-trained Tuesday Joy careered away with the $2,200,000 Group One The BMW (2400m).

Owner John Singleton promised to shout the bar at 19 pubs from Newcastle to Wyong if either Tuesday Joy or Sugarbabe collected one of the big cheques on Slipper Day and luckily for drinkers of Singleton’s Bluetongue beer, Tuesday Joy didn’t disappoint.

Singleton first shouted the public bar at Rosehill Racecourse in 2000 after his horse, Belle De Jour, won the Golden Slipper.

“All the bars in Newcastle, Gosford and Wyong are having Bluetongue happy hour at five o’clock and its going to be a happy two hours if Sugar Babe gets up,” Singleton said.

The win by Tuesday Joy was a cracking one and the ride by Darren Beadman was equally impressive. After jumping from a wide gate, Beadman snagged the mare behind the leaders and remarkably ended up on the fence only a few hundred metres after the gates opened.

Approaching the turn Beadman snuck along the fence before angling off into the straight and from there she sprinted too quickly for Princess Coup (Oliver) and Sirmione (Bowman) to score a superb victory.

The official margins were one and a half lengths by a half length. The overall time was 2.35.81 for the 2400m with the last 600m run in 35.97. Tuesday Joy started at $3.30 with NSWTAB.

Trainer Gai Waterhouse was full of praise for both horse and rider after the event.

“She’s the most superb mare isn’t she,” Waterhouse said.

 “He (Beadman) had her in a lovely position travelling sixth. She quickened at the 500m, she just got into another gear and just exploded. The horses that she beat, Princess Coup is no slouch, she is a very hard tough mare to beat.

“I just loved the way Tuesday Joy showed her quality through and through, and that stride she has, it gave me goose bumps watching her.

“I think it would be mad if she wasn’t running in the Queen Elizabeth,” she said

Singleton was similarly full of praise for the ride and hinted at a possible European trip later in the year.

“I think when the history of racing is written, that ride will be there. The way he got across here the first time around, then on the inside then out, he is the best in the world,” Singleton said.

“We will discuss it (the Arc De Triomphe) with Gai, she is very keen on Europe but wants to do the spring here as well. The 30 day quarantine here since EI puts a bit of a dampener on it, but we decided not to discuss it until after today.”

Beadman, however, was quick to turn the attention away from him and back on to Tuesday Joy after dismounting.

“A mile and a half is a little bit suspect, mares haven’t got a good record in it, but she bounced out and put herself into the right spot,” Beadman said.

“I probably rode a bit of a cheeky race by going to the fence, but I thought it was the shortest way home and horses are winning in there. When I wanted to get out she had the engine to do it, she can stay, and she can run the trip, run a strong mile and a half. It was a bonny effort.

“One of the first horses I ever rode was for Singo, I probably learnt to ride on one of his horses with the boss, Theo Green.

“He had a filly there called Rodeo and a lot of other good fillies, but it’s not too often you can ride a horse and win three group one races from three rides so it’s a bit of a fairytale story.”

By Carnegie out of the brilliant Danehill mare Joie Denise, Tuesday Joy is owned by the Strawberry Hill Stud Syndicate (Mgr: J Singleton) and the bar tab will be picked up with the help of the mares earnings which have now reached $2,721,550.