EACH year the organisers of the meeting invite a number of people to make trophy presentations following each race. Members of the royal family are much in demand to do so, including the Queen herself. She even wore the colours sported by Order Of St George when presenting the trophy for the Gold Cup on Thursday, which no doubt will not be missed by Primus’ Richard Henry when it comes to promoting the Coolmore stallions in the autumn.

There was an interesting duo selected to hand over the trophies for the Queen Anne Stakes, David Redvers of Tweenhills Farm and Stud and Elizabeth Hurley. One was obviously chosen for their film star looks, while Liz Hurley is currently playing Queen Helena in the television series The Royals.