There is a will to win about Supply And Demand, with an edge of toughness from a Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott preparation, that has now delivered four consecutive wins after he led all-the-way in Thursday's Grafton Cup.
![All-the-way winner: Josh Parr urges Supply And Demand to victory in the Grafton Cup.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170717100027im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/a/r/j/i/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gxaq18.png/1499930996275.jpg)
Josh Parr took the $3.20 favourite to the front from barrier rise and rated him perfectly, but admitted at the top of the straight there were still doubts.
"He was on empty turning for home, I didn't think there was much left there," Parr said. "He never travelled from the 700 metres to the home turn, but with a horse from Gai and Adrian's yard, you know they're just kept finding and he just kicked and kicked again.
"He is just so tough, and in the end he was just too tough and too strong from them.
"It is a very sweet win to get that done for Gai and Adrian, who have done a great job with him."
Supply And Demand has been the staying find of the winter winning benchmark races twice at Rosehill before taking the Caloundra Cup. He gave Tulloch Lodge its fourth Grafton Cup after Rocking On, Queenstown and Bonfire, and the first for Waterhouse and Bott as a partnership.
It was the strongest of staying efforts after he put the pressure to the field from the 800m. Supply And Demand had beaten off second favourite Montauk halfway down the straight but still had to see off a late challenge from Get On The Grange before holding him on the line to win by a short neck with Montauk 1¼-lengths back in third.
It was disappointment again for Montauk's rider Josh Adams, who was also narrowly beaten in Wednesday's Ramornie Handicap on The Monstar by Calanda.
"He just needed to get out 50m earlier and he would have made it really interesting," Adams said. "I just couldn't get into the clear when I wanted but he found the line very strongly."
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