DAVID Marnane has every reason to be hopeful that Lady Tilbury could make waves at the upcoming festival of racing that is Royal Ascot. After all, he knows what it takes to win at the meeting.

A decade ago he was successful the Wokingham with Dandy Bay, while more recently Marnane captured the Royal Hunt Cup with Settle For Bay in the hands of Billy Lee. The latter was in the saddle when Lady Tilbury provided MRC International, an ownership concept devised by Marnane, with their first success last month at Cork, having been denied by less than a length on her Dundalk debut.