The accepted norm for most festivals is that you save the best for last but for a long time now the first day of Royal Ascot has provided its finest sport.
Estimate – royal racer
A St James’s Palace Stakes boasting three Guineas winners, and a Queen Anne Stakes contested by Tepin, the best turf miler in America, make this a day’s racing to savour.
The internationalisation of the meeting will be taken to a new level by Mongolian Saturday’s appearance in the King’s Stand Stakes, and who knows what future champion lurks among the 19 precocious juveniles lined up for the Coventry Stakes?
