DAY ONE: THE HIGHLIGHTS

DOMINATED by Godolphin as Sheik Mohammed’s team land a treble including the big two races with Ribchester (Queen Anne Stakes) and Barney Roy (St James’s Palace Stakes). GLOOM for Frankie Dettori as a broken bone in his shoulder rules him out of his favourite meeting and he misses out on a winner. John Velasquez takes over on Lady Aurelia in the King’s Stand. THREE track records smashed thanks to Ribchester, Rajasinghe (Coventry Stakes) and Barney Roy with King’s Stand winner Lady Aurelia missing out by one-hundredth of a second. BLANK day for all-conquering Aidan O’Brien as below par Churchill can only finish fourth in the St James’s Palace Stakes, where second string Lancaster Bomber’s runner-up slot is his best return. MICHELLE PAYNE, the Melbourne Cup’s first winning female jockey, takes 66-1 shot Kaspersky to fine sixth place in the Queen Anne.