BEFORE you think I am a misogynist or worse, by wrong sex I mean geldings. I am a great fan of them as they grace the track for many years, but Royal Ascot is also about making stallions and, in that sense only, the final day of this year’s meeting was disappointing.

Four of the seven winners were geldings, but they included two of the most popular horses in training. Within 35 minutes, Rebels’s Romance (Dubawi) won his 18th race when capturing the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes, the highest level he has won at in England, and then Lazzat posted his eighth success. There is plenty of time for the latter to make inroads into Rebel’s Romance’s tally.