YOU may think that enough time has passed that I shouldn’t still be discussing Royal Ascot, but the planned changes to the Windsor Castle Stakes particularly irked me.

To refresh your memory, the listed five-furlong juvenile contest will be run over six furlongs from 2026, and restricted to horses whose sire won over seven furlongs or more as a two-year-old, or over a mile and upwards as a three-year-old and onwards.