Gai Waterhouse excited about clash of stable stars More Joyous and Pierro Gai Waterhouse cannot wait for stable stars More Joyous and Pierro to clash in Saturday's Group 1 Canterbury Stakes. Picture: Alex Coppel Source: The Daily Telegraph THIS will be the most mouth-watering clash we'll have seen in years. The perfect scenario will be they dead-heat. Gai Waterhouse can't hide her excitement at the prospect of stable stars More Joyous and Pierro colliding in Saturday's Group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill. The trainer opted to dodge the Randwick Guineas with Pierro and give him an extra week to overcome his tough first-up win in the Hobartville Stakes. The only drawback was Golden Slipper winner Pierro would be forced to rumble with older stablemate More Joyous, a winner of this race the past two years. Bookie Tom Waterhouse and the TAB both expect Pierro to start the short-priced favourite. Ever the optimist, Waterhouse told The Daily Telegraph: "You've got youth against maturity. More Joyous has been set for this race, she's won this race before and is bombproof first-up. After Pierro won first-up, I spoke with (owner) Greg Kolivos to discuss if we'd run in the Randwick Guineas at Warwick Farm, and he wasn't mad about going there. I think it will be great. Both jockeys think they can win, both owners think they can win, both horses think they can win the race. Pierro, the three-year-old colt who has won nine of 11 starts, was all class when he powered through the Rosehill bog to win the Hobartville Stakes. More Joyous, the six-year-old mare who has won more than $4.5 million in prizemoney, tuned up for her return with an eye-catching exhibition gallop a fortnight ago. Jockey Nash Rawiller, the regular rider of both horses who stuck with More Joyous - Jimmy Cassidy will partner Pierro - took time out to discuss tactics with Waterhouse yesterday at a Star Thoroughbreds yearling parade in Randwick. Rawiller said More Joyous always performed better in the autumn, with five of her eight Group 1s collected in the cooler months. More Joyous has had a good break, and she just always seems to do better in the autumn. I don't know what it is. We haven't seen the best of her in the spring, which is unfortunate, but she seems happier in the autumn," Rawiller said. The other bloke (Pierro) is pretty bombproof, and by the time he gets to her age, who knows what he could have achieved. Pierro will push on to the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m) on Golden Slipper Day, while More Joyous will run second-up in the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf (1500m) on the same program. In a busy day for Waterhouse, her Golden Slipper favourite Overreach will clash with Slipper second favourite Villa Verde in the Reisling Stakes (1200m). The trainer said Overreach reminded her of Amelia's Dream, the wonderful filly who won her first two starts by a collective 15 lengths, only to suffer a career-ending injury. Meanwhile, trainer Chris Waller will unleash Foreteller, Kelinni and Gatewood in the Ranvet Stakes.