The second-day crowd at Royal Ascot was denied a rare meeting of two Derby winners when Desert Crown was ruled out of the Prince of Wales’s Stakes this month, but it is a sign of the depth in the six-runner field that the feature event on Wednesday may well still prove to be the strongest contest of the week.
Adayar, the Derby winner in 2021, is joined by Bay Bridge and My Prospero, completing the 1-2-3 from last season’s Champion Stakes over course and distance, while Luxembourg, who was denied a run in Desert Crown’s Derby by injury, went on to land the Irish Champion Stakes last season.
