Fugue spoils Treve’s party

She was not the lady most expected to be winning the Prince of Wales’s Stakes but The Fugue gave another reminder of how she must never be underestimated after receiving a Royal Ascot coronation in a record-breaking time yesterday.

Treve failed to live up to her position as the 8-13 favourite and at present is not the same filly that shone so memorably in last year’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, with Criquette Head-Maarek and Frankie Dettori convinced something was amiss with the eventual third.

Instead it was yet another accolade from what has become the season of John Gosden, who raised The Fugue (11-2) from the depths of a poor run in the Dubai Duty Free to lift what will be one of the year’s strongest Group One events by a length and three-quarters.