Shortly after her coronation 70 years ago the late Queen Elizabeth attended Royal Ascot to watch her horse Choir Boy win the Hunt Cup. Her enthusiasm for her own meeting never diminished and was rewarded by a couple of dozen winners through the years.
Her son and heir didn’t inherit her obsession with thoroughbreds and has already begun to thin out the royal bloodstock holdings but will still be hoping that one of his eight entries can do a job. None of them look topflight and probably won’t feature in any of the clashes likely to be remembered when the next man up is crowned. Clashes such as these.
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