More Joyous has recorded her eighth Group 1 success this time in the star studded Tabcorp Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick.

The jewel of Sydney racing was in command throughout during today's Group 1 Tabcorp Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) making all for a dominant 2.5 length victory.

Leading Sydney rider Nash Rawiller went straight to the front aboard More Joyous and after stacking the field up around the turned cruised away for a comfortable success.

“I didn't tell him anything,” trainer Gai Waterhouse said.

“It just clicked in his mind 'how am I going to win this race?'

“He realised they would all sit back and he just took control.”

Today's Queen Elizabeth Stakes was just the second time More Joyous had raced over the 2000m with her prior effort a fifth behind So You Think   in the 2010 Cox Plate (2040m).

“The question mark was could she run the distance,” Waterhouse said.

“Could she run the distance? She annihilated them. The further she went the more she came away.

“It was a joy watching her today, it was very special.”

Nash Rawiller was again in scintillating form during the final day of the Sydney Autumn carnival with More Joyous the third leg of a winning treble.

“She took it by the scruff of the neck,” Rawiller said.

“600m from home she came up onto the bridle and started reeling off some pretty fantastic sectionals a long way from home.

“I kept her on the bridle until inside the 300m and I knew she had a kick.”

Rawiller has been on the mares back for all but five of her 26 career starts.

Their latest success was the 16th win the pair had recorded in partnership with Darren Beadman [1 win] and Corey Brown [2 wins] the others who have helped add to the champion mares tally.

Her 19th career victory was clearly one of her best, defeating a start studded line up of gallopers which included multiple Group 1 winners Manighar  , Secret Admirer  , Rangirangdoo  , Jimmy Choux   and 2010 Melbourne Cup winner Americain  .

“Full credit to her,” Rawiller said.

“Nothing had the pace to take it up to her early. She was in cruise control and she has just been a very dominant mare all her life and I think now she is starting to get the respect she deserves.