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The turf

Ryan Moore is the new Lester Piggott

But the nine times Ascot winner keeps quiet about his successes

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

Nothing pleases the Royal Ascot crowd more than a winner for the meeting’s crucial supporter, the Queen. Imagine, then, the dilemma of one of her Windsor Castle lunch guests, trainer Roger Charlton, when Her Majesty asked him, ‘Are you going to beat me?’ on the day of the Tercentenary Stakes.

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