Fully completed five-day meeting was a triumph for the
British Horseracing Authority but with very little race-day income, the bottom line is unsustainably bleak
It was a Royal Ascot that had everything except a crowd: a performance for the ages from Stradivarius in the Gold Cup, a winner for the
Queen, the biggest winning SP in the meeting’s history and a final-day flourish from Frankie Dettori to retain the prize for the week’s top jockey.
Those are just the most obvious headlines that come to mind at the end of five days that took place with unprecedented restrictions to ensure the safety of all participants amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but there were many more.