A trip to Royal Ascot is still very much on the cards for Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot.

The Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Botttrained four-year-old won the Golden Slipper in 2024 but hasn't tasted victory since, albeit placing in four attempts at Group One level.

The daughter of Written Tycoon has been off the scene for over a year, last seen running third to Lady Shenandoah in the 2025 Coolmore Classic and will kick off in the Group 2 Victory Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

The stable are under no illusions as to the level of performance required to warrant a trip to Royal Ascot, with both the King Charles III Stakes (1000m) and the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (1200m) still on the table.

"She will head up to Queensland this week and everything is done for her now," Adrian Bott said.

"Saturday is the main day to see where she is at under race day conditions and pressure.

"I know she has had a while off, but I want to see her winning. She needs to be. If not winning then going close and a run where you think, that was as good as a win. It needs to be a winning run."

"All being well, she'll have another run up there in the (Doomben) 10,000, and if she's going overseas, she will be overseas after that.

"If the decision is to keep her here off that first-up run, there are plenty of nice options during the Brisbane carnival where she will be well placed in so many races."

A raceday gallop over 1000m at Randwick on Saturday, when just shaded by Stradbroke-bound stablemate The Instructor gave the stable confidence Lady Of Camelot was ready to put her best foot forward in Saturday's weight-for-age contest.

"It was more to get the race day nerves out of the way having been away from the track for so long and get a nice surface to gallop on," Bott commented.

"She wasn't out to do too much. But her mannerisms, the way she did it, the way she looked, the way she stretched out and changed leads at the right time and galloped out well and recovered nicely was good."

Lady Of Camelot could join a strong contingent of Australain sprinters heading to Royal Ascot, with Joliestar, Generosity, Overpass and Charm Stone all still likely runners across the carnival which starts on June 16th.

Photo: Steve Hart