Forget the G7 and President Biden - the Queen gets back to the serious business

This Royal Ascot has missed a few key ingredients. At least 30,000 people on the ground each day, to start with and many runners from international jurisdictions aside from Ireland and America.

Perhaps, with all due respect paid to the impressive Subjectivist and Poetic Flare, it has lacked one of those defining 'wow factor' moments which you remember for years, such as Canford Cliffs' Coventry or Alpha Centauri decimating her rivals in the Coronation Stakes in 2018.

From a personal perspective, it was a pair of woollen morning suit trousers, left with more holes than cloth after two years of unmonitored inactivity and a surprise moth invasion.