IT was all about ‘Girl Power’ at Ascot last Wednesday as Love and Audarya fought out the finish of the day’s feature race, the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, with Aidan O’Brien’s filly proving the strongest to provide the master of Ballydoyle with his 75th Royal Ascot winner.

After such a lengthy absence from the track Love (119+) could have been forgiven for not being at her sharpest. However, jockey Ryan Moore had few doubts about her fitness as he assumed the lead and dictated throughout the contest to win by a hard-fought three-quarters of a length from Audarya (118) who was also making her seasonal comeback.