By Glenn Davis
Lightly raced Joy Too All will be out to take a claim for next month’s Magic Millions Country Cup when she starts at Ipswich on Wednesday.
Trainer David Vandyke has pencilled in the $250,000 feature over 1200 metres on January 8 – a week before the gala Magic Millions Raceday at the Gold Coast.
Joy Too All – a winner of four of her six starts - will start in the Class 5 Handicap over 1100 metres in her second run back from a five-month break.
The daughter of All Too Hard made a triumphant return to racing scoring a dominant win over 1100 metres at Ipswich on November 10.
She was subsequently entered for several races but Vandyke was forced to scratch her due to the recent rain in South East Queensland.
Joy Too All was a $170,00 buy at the Magic Millions sales at the Gold Coast in 2018 but she still has a long way to go to recoup her purchase price with prizemoney earnings of $63,600.
“I’m thinking of running her in the Country Cup and part of the conditions is she has to run twice outside the metropolitan area,” Vandyke said.
“She won her last start well at Ipswich and she’s come on well since so she should be hard to beat again.
“We were originally looking at the Fillies and Mares race for her on Magic Millions day but we’re not confident she would get in as her rating is not high enough.
“She’s already been balloted out of a few races because of her low rating.”