Royal Ascot

A look back atatwhowho made hay while the sun shone on a boiling royal meeting that produced plenty of winners, losers, upsets and compelling stories.

BEST HORSE

CARAVAGGIO. Lived up to expectations when beating his biggest rivals Harry Angel and Blue Point in yesterday’s Commonwealth Cup. He is unbeaten, with two royal meeting wins on his c.v. now.

BEST JOCKEY

THE last few months have been testing for James Doyle with his Godolphin position undermined but he has enjoyed two massive wins with Barney Roy (St James’s Palace Stakes) and Big Orange (Gold Cup). Others rode more winners but Doyle hit the big ones.

BEST RACE

TO race over two and a half miles and then have the first two separated by a few inches tells its own story but Big Orange’s brave front-running defeat of favourite Order of St George was a storming race which lifted the atmosphere at Ascot.

BEST TRAINER

TWO more wins for US trainer Wesley Ward (right) with Lady Aurelia and Con Te Partiro takes his total to an amazing nine royal meeting successes since he had his first runners in 2009. Ward has had a winner here every year since 2013 — some result for a man shipping horses across the Atlantic.

MOST EMOTIONAL MOMENT

TEARS flowed when young Newmarket trainer Richard Spencer, who started in racing as a 16-year-old stable lad, landed the Coventry Stakes with Rajasinghe. It was only the ninth win of his training career.