IT feels like déjà vu all over again recording another excellent Royal Ascot for Irish trainers, 14 winners there a record and beating the previous high of 12 in 2023, three yards providing all those winners.

Aidan O’Brien equalled his previous best of seven Royal Ascot winners, achieved 10 years ago in 2016, with a diverse spread of success - two two-year-old wins, one a colt, the other a filly, three three-year-old wins, a colt, a filly and a gelding (!), and two older horse wins.