YOU associate Henry de Bromhead more with Cheltenham and Aintree than you do with Ascot and, if you were told that he had a horse with a chance at Ascot, you’d probably be thinking Ascot in December or Ascot in February, not Ascot in June with its soaring temperatures and its top hats and tails.

Yet here we are, Royal Ascot Day 5, Star Girls Aalmal in the Jersey Stakes, and she goes there with a real chance.