JOSEPH O’Brien and Dylan Browne McMonagle are always a force to be reckoned with, but even more so now at Royal Ascot, fresh from Thundering On’s Epsom Oaks heroics and James J Braddock’s fine third in the Epsom Derby.

The Owning Hill operation is well-represented at entry stage, with a particularly strong show for the opening day at the meeting, where they came close to landing the Wolferton Stakes 12 months ago with Galen.