Royal Ascot 2019: What to look out for at famous race meeting

As number one rider to the Coolmore racing empire and its powerful main trainer Aidan O’Brien, Ryan Moore is favourite to be top jockey during the week for the sixth year running, and ninth time in all.

At his favourite track, Dettori is sure to be amongst the winners too, but few riders have a better list of mounts than James Doyle.

In many ways, it was at Royal Ascot that ‘the Doyler’ first announced his appearance in the big time when taking three prizes in a row on the Wednesday afternoon in 2013.

Now one of two main jockeys for Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation in Europe, he will be extra busy this time because the other principal rider, William Buick, is absent through injury.

Highest on Doyle’s list will be the sheikh’s Masar in Saturday’s Hardwicke Stakes and the William Haggas-trained Sea Of Class, the narrowly-beaten Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe runner-up, in the day two feature, the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.