North American and Australian horses have undoubtedly helped make Royal Ascot the spectacle it is over the last few years. Now it is almost a case of the best of both worlds with Carl Spackler an attention-grabbing runner in the opening race, the Queen Anne Stakes.

Three times a Grade 1 winner for Chad Brown in the States, the Lope De Vega five-year-old is now owned by Yulong Investments and with a new trainer in Ciaron Maher, meaning he will be a first Australian runner in a race superstar American mare Tepin won in 2016.