Dream of Dreams gave trainer Michael Stoute a record-extending 82nd Royal Ascot winner as he landed the feature race the Diamond Jubilee Stakes on the final day of the meeting yesterday.
One of those owners, for whom 75-year-old Stoute has trained a Royal Ascot winner, Queen Elizabeth II was present for the first time this week and received a roar from the 12,000 spectators as she stepped from her limousine.
Unlike Stoute she finished the day without a winner – Reach For The Moon finishing second in the opening race and King’s Lynn an unlucky third in the Wokingham Handicap.
She and Stoute chatted away after Dream of Dreams had finally cracked the Diamond Jubilee after finishing runner-up in the previous two runnings.
“I thought I wasn’t going to have a Royal Ascot winner this year – this is the last runner we’ve got,” said Stoute, whose previous win in the race was 1985.
“It’s been tough – it’s always been tough, but it’s tougher.”
Frankie Dettori also had an audience with the Queen after finishing second on Reach For The Moon talking her through how the horse had run.
The 50-year-old Italian then had to give second best to champion jockey Oisin Murphy in being leading jockey of the meeting.
Murphy rode his fifth winner of the week on Foxes Tales owned by the Thai owners of Leicester City.
Murphy said his first thoughts were for 15-year-old rider Tiggy Hancock, who died on Wednesday following a riding accident in Ireland.
“My thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends, what a tragic loss,” said Murphy, who had got all the jockeys to sport yellow ribbons in the first race as a tribute.

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Earlier Wonderful Tonight – named after Eric Clapton’s 1977 ballad – was music to England-based French trainer David Menuisier’s ears.
She returned after eight months off the track to win the Hardwicke Stakes.
“I have waited for 40 years for a Royal Ascot winner,” owner Chris Wright told ITV.
This year’s Derby winning trainer Charlie Appleby welcomed home a 1-2 in the Jersey Stakes with James Doyle on Creative Force prevailing.
Dean Kiely, a former Charlton Athletic and Republic of Ireland goalkeeper, was a proud dad as Rohaan, owned by his son Chris, won the Wokingham Stakes.