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Royal Ascot plays strong hand to underpin meeting’s continuing success

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The Queen Alexandra Stakes was the quirky but traditional closing event of Royal Ascot .

Saturday ’s crowd of 71,073 was a 2.6% rise on last year , completing a full set of rising attendance across the five days for the second year in a row .

The total attendance of just over 285,000 was just below 5% above last year's figure, and all but a handful of the final day crowd were still there for the Queen Alexandra .

Aidan O'Brien , Harry Eustace , Jim Goldie and Joseph Murphy all registered their first wins at the highest level.

Willie Mullins ’s career total of a dozen Royal victories now puts him joint 10th with Wesley Ward among trainers with a current licence.

Lazzat was a first Royal winner for Jérôme Reynier in Saturday 's feature.

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