MILLIONAIRE owner John Singleton predicts a blue with trainer Gai Waterhouse over Tuesday Joy's Cups agenda.
Singleton is adamant he must forgo the Caulfield Cup with Tuesday Joy to pull off his dream of winning the Melbourne Cup.
"Singo" predicts Waterhouse might have other ideas.
"Gai and I will probably have another famous disagreement about the Caulfield Cup, but she (Tuesday Joy) won't go to the Caulfield Cup," Singleton said yesterday.
Singleton said the weight penalty Tuesday Joy, or any horse, would attract in winning the Caulfield Cup would make winning on the first Tuesday in November impossible.
He said Tuesday Joy had already been over-handicapped to win both Cups - she has 54.5kg - pointing out the mare's Cups burden was 1kg less than legendary Makybe Diva carried to win the second of three Melbourne Cups in 2004.
"They haven't missed her. You'd reckon she'd have won the (AJC) Derby and Oaks rather than running third," he said.
Singleton predicted most of the best horses would bypass the Caulfield Cup if their trainers were serious about winning the Melbourne Cup.
Weekend Hussler and Pompeii Ruler are heading towards both races.
Tuesday Joy will run in the 2000m Turnbull Stakes at Flemington on October 4 before heading to the Melbourne Cup through the Cox Plate.
Long term, Singleton is obsessed with winning next year's 2400m Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the race in which his globe-trotting champion Strawberry Road finished fifth in 1984.
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