Is Ascot feast now the best day's racing in the world?

In racing, sometimes silence is the best response you can hope for. The queue to bash British Champions Day when it was first proposed made the wait for a taxi on Ladies' Day seem like the blink of an eye. Just five years on, you could fit the remaining doubters in the same black cab.

With a line-up that could scarcely be improved without bending the unchangeables of weather (Limato) and injury (The Gurkha), it is reasonable to ask if Saturday's card at Ascot is the best anywhere in the world.

On Saturday we will see the best of the Arc in Found and the horse that beat her the time before, Almanzor. The best three-year-old milers of both sexes will meet the older horses again. Most of the 6f Group 1 winners are represented, as well as the 5f champion punching up. Even the Group 2 on the card has drawn in the Gold Cup winner (and Arc placed) against last year's St Leger winner.