Royal Supremacy Eyes Rare Spring Double
Australian Bloodstock has a live contender shaping up beautifully this spring, and connections are daring to dream about a rare and thrilling back-up campaign.
There is something genuinely exciting brewing in the Australian Bloodstock camp this spring, and if you love thoroughbred racing, this is the kind of story that reminds you exactly why the sport gets under your skin.
Royal Supremacy is in terrific form heading into the Caulfield Cup, and connections are already talking openly about the possibility of backing him up into the Cox Plate the following week. Yes, that is two of Australia's biggest staying races in just seven days. Bold? Absolutely. But Australian Bloodstock has seen this movie before, and they know how it can end.
Back in 2022, the team watched closely as Gold Trip, a horse they had a stake in, did exactly that. He ran in the Caulfield Cup, backed up in the Cox Plate, and then ten days later saluted in the Melbourne Cup at generous odds. It was one of those rare, spine-tingling sequences that stays with you. Three runs in 17 days, capped by one of the great Cup wins. Australian Bloodstock was there for all of it.
Gold Trip tried the same path again the following year without the same result, which only shows how fine the margins are at this level. But when the horse is right and the timing lines up, the rewards can be extraordinary.
So where does Royal Supremacy sit right now? According to Australian Bloodstock director Jamie Lovett, the horse is going better than he ever has. That is not a throwaway comment.
