Monday, 17 September 2018: The volatile and often controversial owner and breeder John Singleton has never been far from racing headlines for many reasons, but it cannot be said he has not made a huge contribution to the bloodstock industry through his elite band of broodmares.

From the time in the 1980s when he sent his champion colt Strawberry Road overseas to challenge the best in Europe and America Singleton has made extensive and often trail blazing investments in the Australian racing and breeding industries.
Much of his success has been built on the big family of fillies and mares he has bred and raced that descend from noted G1 mare of the 1970s Denise’s Joy, the source through her extended female line of more than 30 stakes winners.

John Singleton

An outstanding performer for the Tommy Smith stable, Denise's Joy won 13 races including the G1 VRC Oaks, G1 Underwood Stakes, G1 Queensland Oaks and G1 WATC Australian Derby. She was also second in the G1 Golden Slipper and G1 Champagne Stakes.
Seven of her 10 foals were fillies and between them they have established one of Australian’s racing’s greatest dynasties.
Joie Denise, Sunday Joy, Tuesday Joy and More Joyous are the best known of the deep Denise’s Joy female family Singleton has nurtured at Strawberry Hills Stud, his breeding base located 60km north of Sydney.
Queensland Oaks winner Joie Denise , a Danehill daughter of Denise’s Joy, is the dam of Singleton’s G1 winners Sunday Joy  (Sunday Silence) and Tuesday Joy  (Carnegie). His eight-time G1 winner More Joyous  (More Than Ready) is a daughter of Sunday Joy.

MOre Joyous

Singleton has also invested big sums in securing other high class mares from outside this famous family, not the least being the $3.85 million he paid for multiple G1 winner Samantha Miss  when the daughter of Redoute’s Choice was offered at the Australian Easter Broodmare Sale in 2009 after her retirement from racing.
Samantha Miss, herself a $1.5 million yearling purchase for stable clients by trainer Kris Lees, won seven races including three at Group 1 level in the Champagne Stakes, Flight Stakes and VRC Oaks in 2008.
Crowned champion three-year-old filly in Australia in 2009, Samantha Miss has produced four winning foals with her current 3YO filly Miss Fabulass  emerging as one of the most exciting classic prospects of the season following her dominant win in the G2 Tea Rose Stakes at Randwick on September 15.
It was her second win from just four starts and has elevated her value to almost priceless as she is a the result of Singleton’s expensive decision to send a number of his top mares including Samantha Miss to Galileo’s unbeaten champion Frankel  in the UK in 2014 to be served to southern hemisphere time.
The Frankel experiment produced earlier winners Woman (ex More Joyous) and Merovee (ex More Strawberries) for Singleton but his biggest return is now imminent with Miss Fabulass set to follow the same spring path as her dam to the G1 Flight Stakes at Randwick at before chasing other G1 targets in Melbourne.

Miss Fabulass

Miss Fabulass is the 30th stakes winner for Frankel and his first in Australia – and Singleton is seeking more of the same as he sent Samantha Miss back to the UK in August for another mating with Frankel to Australian time.
Samantha Miss is from the unraced Zabeel mare Millyet, a sister to G1 winner Cronus and G2 winner Pravda.
The earlier foals by Samantha Miss include the provincial winner Sammy's Girl  (More Than Ready), Newcastle and Singapore winner Sun Force  (More Than Ready) and two-time country winner The Greatest  (Street Cry).
Her current 2YO by Medaglia D'Oro is named Geo and is in the Lees stable.
Samantha Miss also has a yearling colt by Medaglia D’Oro.