Reaching High out of luck for the King and Queen in Ascot Stakes

Hopes of a winner for the and Queen were dashed on the opening day of Royal Ascot, as the well-fancied finished a never-nearer ninth in the Stakes.

A first horse trained by to carry the royal colours, Reaching High was the 11-4 favourite in the hands of Ryan Moore – but while he looked full of running rounding the home turn, he was all dressed up with nowhere to go against the rail and when he did eventually get out it was all too late.

Up front Henry de Bromhead’s fellow Irish raider (20-1) knuckled down under Billy Lee in the concluding stages of the two-and-a-half-mile contest to beat Nurburgring, with the latter’s trainer Joseph O’Brien also saddling the third and fourth home in Comfort Zone and Leinster.