Green Bottles lined up for Royal date and daring to Dream

Just as the nursery rhyme says, the Ten Green Bottles have been losing numbers, but the survivors were entitled to accidentally wobble off the wall when their Tisbutadream won the fillies' handicap.

After the three-year-old had given apprentice David Egan his first winner at the track, winning trainer David Elsworth explained: "The filly is owned by Anne Coughlan but the Ten Green Bottles have leased a share in her."

Alan Elliott, one of six Green Bottles left standing for the presentation, said: "We got involved with David when he was at Whitsbury 13 years ago and it was nine years before we had our first winner.