The newly named Duke Of Cambridge Stakes (formerly the Windsor Forest Stakes) went the way of Duntle (10/3) for David Wachman. There was no sentimental win for Lady Cecil’s Chigun (11/4f) who finished back in sixth.
Jockey James Doyle rode his first Royal Ascot winner in the Group 1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes – not a bad way to start – aboard Al Kazeem (11/4). Doyle was quickly alert to the threat from Paul Hanagan aboard Mukhadram (14/1) who had stolen an easy lead on his rivals and was trying to steal the race from the front. But Al Kazeem gradually caught up to him and was ahead by a neck at the line.
Doyle then immediately doubled his tally of Royal Ascot winners by following up in the Royal Hunt Cup aboard Belgian Bill (33/1) with Premio Loco (40/1) in second.
The jockey completed an amazing 891/1 treble by riding Rizeena (6/1) to victory in the Queen Mary Stakes for Clive Brittain.
"I'd have taken one [win] but three is unbelievable!" the delighted Doyle told Channel 4 Racing.
The concluding handicap for fillies, the Sandringham Handicap, went to Annecdote (11/1) in a close four-way finish. The win gave trainer Jonathan Portman his first victory at the Royal meeting. Ed Dunlop's Auction (16/1) was the runner-up by a neck with Woodland Aria (7/1) a further neck back in third.
