Last year’s Slipper winner out to achieve rare Rosehill double

Gai Waterhouse has made a career out of emulating her legendary father and the Hall of Fame trainer will be out to do that again with Lady Of Camelot in this Saturday's Group 1 Coolmore Classic.

The daughter of Written Tycoon is still chasing her first win since last year's Golden Slipper and will pull off a feat achieved only by Bounding Away if she wins the $1 million event over 1500 metres.

The Tommy Smith-trained Bounding Away is the only winner of the Golden Slipper who adorns the Coolmore Classic honour roll.

Mind you, it's a double not many attempt with Lady Of Camelot to become the first Slipper winner to run in a Coolmore Classic in more than two decades.

Polar Success, the 2003 Slipper heroine, beat home just one rival in the 2004 Coolmore, while the only others to attempt it since 1987 are Belle Du Jour (third in the 2001 Coolmore) and the Waterhouse-trained Ha Ha (eighth in 2002).

Lady Of Camelot, who Waterhouse trains in partnership with Adrian Bott, will carry 54kg in Saturday's handicap event, which is 3kg above the 51kg limit.

Ha Ha ran with 55kg, but was also 3kg above the limit, while Belle Du Jour's 54.5kg was 2.5kg above the limit and Polar Success was on the 53kg limit.

Bounding Away owns the fillies weight-carrying record at 57.5kg.

Despite being the Slipper winner, Lady Of Camelot is not the most heavily-weighted filly in this year's Coolmore with Lady Shenandoah, who narrowly defeated Lady Of Camelot last start in the Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m), to carry 54.5kg.

Manaal (51kg) is the other filly engaged in this year's race and that trio are charged with ending a 16-year run of outs for their age group.

It is the most successful age group in the history of the race run for the first time as the TAD Kennedy Stakes in 1973, but a filly hasn't won since Typhoon Tracy in 2009.

Four-year-olds are the next most successful with 17, followed by five-year-olds (10) and six-year-olds (six).

Five of the wins by six-year-olds have come since 2010, while four and five-year-olds have split the other 10 in that time.

Amelia's Jewel, a five-year-old, is the highest-profile older horse in this year's race and she will carry the 58kg top weight, which is at least 2.5kg more than any other runner in the race.

A winner hasn't carried that much weight since Sunline scored the second of her two wins under 60kg in 2002, but the Coolmore has become a race for those towards the head of the weights.

Only six editions between 1987 and 2017 were won by horses carrying more than 55kg, but five of the past seven winners carried at least 56kg, including last year's winner Zougotcha, who won with 57kg and defeated Semana (55.5kg), who was joint second topweight.