It really is a remarkable achievement but I feel Ward is not fully capitalising on the situation.

Ward clearly has carved out a niche for himself over the course of his career. He breeds, purchases and trains his horses with the sole focus of running highly precocious individuals very early on in their two-year-old year. No shortage of eyebrows have been raised by his Royal Ascot successes, with many mischievously wondering what his secret might be, but the results tell you that there is a price to pay for his way of selecting and conditioning his horses and one only has to look at the subsequent race records of his Royal Ascot runners to see it. Jealous Again, the blistering winner of the Queen Mary Stakes in 2009, was sold for big money to Godolphin but never made it to the track again. That same year, he saddled Strike The Tiger to win the Windsor Castle Stakes but he never won again after that. His brilliant Norfolk Stakes winner from last year, No Nay Never, went on to win the Prix Morny at Deauville two months later but has yet to make an impact as a three-year-old.