After 38 years of trying, groom Bob Grace finally bagged a Royal Ascot winner when Battaash blitzed the field in the King's Stand Stakes.
Charlie Hills' employee watched on with pride as the six-year-old, runner-up in the race for the past two years, quickened away from stablemate Equilateral to take the spoils.
In front of just a handful of people watching on at the course, Bristol Rovers fan Grace led his all-the-way hero into the winners' enclosure.
The 5/6 favourite's Group One triumph was the highlight of a 118/1 treble on the day for jockey Jim Crowley. Grace said beforehand that Ascot had never been his lucky track, as on his first trip a Jim Old-trained runner fell at the first hurdle and the meeting was abandoned on his second
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