French runner Lazzat held off Satono Reve to deny Japan a first triumph at Royal Ascot.
James Doyle was victorious aboard the 9-2 winner, trained by Jerome Reynier.
The jockey and winning owners Wathnan Racing, who also had the third-placed horse Flora Of Bermuda, were celebrating a double on the day after the earlier victory of Humidity in the Chesham Stakes.
Favourite Satono Reve was bidding to become the first Japanese-trained winner at the meeting after 12 previous attempts but was beaten by half a length.
As Doyle celebrated after the line, Lazzat unshipped his jockey and ran loose around the Ascot track before being caught.
Reynier was happier with Doyle than fellow jockey Flavien Prat, having described his effort on Facteur Cheval – who faded to finish sixth in Wednesday’s Prince of Wales’s Stakes – as “perhaps the worst ride given to one of my horses”.
“James knew he was never going to get beaten. He listened exactly to what we said to him,” said the trainer.
Rebel’s Romance won the Hardwicke Stakes to give Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby his first victory at Royal Ascot since 2022.
It was an eighth top-level Group One victory for the horse, ridden by William Buick.
“He was the horse we needed. I’m just glad to get one on the board in the end,” said Appleby.
Appleby’s 6-4 favourite Treanmor had earlier finished fifth behind winner Humidity in the Chesham Stakes and Rebel’s Romance was his last Ascot runner of the week.
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