There remains a big prize to be won with Reaching High, the royal runner who suffered a luckless passage in the Ascot Stakes.
Sent to Willie Mullins upon the retirement of Sir Michael Stoute by the King and Queen, the big meeting had understandably been his aim.
Draw one, though, Ryan Moore was always looking for a way out having been trapped on the rails, meaning he finished full of running in ninth. He is entered back at Ascot Saturday, but the Northumberland Plate would look a likely target.
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