They are sired by the same stallion, they were born just 15 days apart and now Reigning Supreme and Supreme Belle are set to meet on race day.
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The Supreme Class fillies were bought by trainer Sally Torrens as a combo and have been at Torrens' stables for the past 12 months or so.
The three-year-olds are stabled close to one another and, to keep that closeness going, will line up in the opening race - the Peel Valley Tyres Maiden Plate - on Tuesday at Tamworth.
"It's funny, they've always been together," Torrens said.
"I bought them as a unit from the same stud. They've been a pigeon pair but this will be the first time they've raced together."
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Reigning Supreme is doing just as her name suggests when you plot the stablemates' statistics against each other.
The filly has two thirds from seven starts while Supreme Belle is yet to get make it into the placings.
With that being said, Torrens didn't think there was a huge difference between the pair.
"The penny hasn't dropped for them. They've been slow-maturing fillies," Torrens said.
"They've shown a bit in trackwork but yet to take it into a race.
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"Reigning Supreme has been a bit slow out and has thrown it away at the start.
"But the last two runs, she's jumped well and put herself in the race. She's on the improve.
"Supreme Belle's a work in progress. Her biggest problem is drawing wide gates which doesn't help.
"I've said 'the minute she draws a gate, she'll be hard to beat'."
The Tamworth track is rated a heavy 10 as of Tuesday morning.
The stewards inspected the track at 7am and gave the meeting the green light to go ahead.
Torrens was glad the meeting was going ahead so she can gauge how her two horses will handle the heavy going.
"They've never raced on it [a heavy track]. They'll either love it or hate it," she said.
"Coming into winter, there's going to be wet tracks so hopefully they like it."
Torrens will have a third runner at Tamworth with Swift Mango in race seven, the Coreys Catering Class 2 Handicap.
"The form doesn't say it, but the mare has been going really well," Torrens said.
"She's ready to win. Her runs have been really good without running a place.
"She hasn't been able to get a good gate, either.
"It's ridiculous, the last 6-8 months I've had wide gates with pretty much everything.
"The law of averages say it'll even out soon."
