Ascot looks for winners in the high fashion stakes

Laura Elston

All this will help to wash down 7,500 lobsters and five tonnes of strawberries eaten with 1,650 gallons of cream as more than 300,000 people are expected to flock to the festival.

In blazing sunshine, punters packed the Berkshire racecourse sipping champagne and treating themselves to portions of strawberries and cream.