Tuesday

“It doesn’t get any better, a Group 1 at Royal Ascot. I am really delighted for his owner, who has invested so much in the game and has supported me for a number of years.” Roger Varian after winning the Queen Anne

“Now Charyn has booked a box in my stallion yard! I have been dreaming about this, but I never thought it would happen. To have a Group 1 winner at Royal Ascot is not easy. It is a big day. You wouldn’t be confident in a Group 1 race, so it’s amazing.” Charyn’s winning owner Nurlan Bizakov

“The minute he was born, I put him on a rocking horse. He just gelled at it.” David Loughnane after son Billy won the Coventry Stakes

“Billy – he’s a great kid, a lovely way about him and wonderful with people. The world is his oyster as far as the horse business is concerned.” Brian Meehan on Billy Loughnane

“You can try and keep a lid on things now, but we’ll draw a breath in an hour or so and take some pleasure out of it. It’s just very special.” Brian Meehan again after the Coventry Stakes

“To get a Group 1 at home is great but to get one at Royal Ascot is just amazing. We’ve got so many people here sharing it with us, but there is another group of 40 or 50 of my owners from home that would saw their left leg off to have a runner at Royal Ascot. It is an amazing experience.” Australian trainer Henry Dwyer after Asfoora’s Group 1 win

“Quite often you call these horses something that they’re not, because you want them to be the best horse you’ve trained – and quite often you are disappointed. But this lad has never let me down. This is about the only race I’ve won more often than my dad!” Richard Hannon after the St James’s Palace

“I am after stallions. I breed for stallions, not prize money. That’s where the money comes.” Sheikh Obaid Al Maktoum, owner-breeder of Rosallion.

“I always hoped he would be that horse I’ve been waiting for him all my career. People say to me, you remember the horse along with who rode it. It means the world to me, and everyone at home.” Sean Levey on Rosallion

“The only thing he’s ever done wrong in his life is cost all that money [450,000gns] as a yearling. Then the expectation is so high on him. If he couldn’t win the Derby, the next best thing was to win at Royal Ascot for them, so I’m very grateful he has.” Sir Mark Prescott on his Ascot Stakes winner Pledgeofallegiance

“Israr is a grand horse and is a well-bred horse too, so hopefully we can find a stallion job for him one day. It’s great of Sheikha Hissa to keep him in training.” John Gosden after the Wolferton

“It is always a privilege to get phone calls from Willie to ride his horses.” William Buick after winning on Belloccio

Wednesday

“Richard Brown and the team – they have done fantastically well. I know they’ve paid a lot of money, but that just adds more pressure. So to get one result is great, and hopefully this is not the last of the meeting.” Karl Burke on the Queen Mary winner Leovanni

“What can I say about Ryan that hasn’t already been said? He is an unbelievable man.” Aidan O’Brien on Ryan Moore

“Her sire ran the same way, with his head down, and it’s wonderful to see. I bred her, she’s by Roaring Lion who tragically died, so it just couldn’t be more special. For Oisin to do it on Roaring Lion’s filly is as good as it gets.” Running Lion’s winner David Howden

“It is so lovely seeing her – very reminiscent of her sire [Roaring Lion] – there are a lot of lovely things about that. It’s lovely to have a Tweenhills-bred winner, bred in partnership with David. The old line is that this is our Olympics, but it really is. David Redvers after Running Lion’s win

“We saw today that when he gets to the front, he waits, and then he goes again, and that’s what makes him very good. He has a personality, and good horses, they have to develop a personality to become good. And he has everything – the action, the movement, the temperament, the pedigree. So he’s very special really and Ryan gave him a very special ride.” Aidan O’Brien on Auguste Rodin

“People are always very quick to knock horses. Keep the Derby winner in training, as soon as they get beat, they want to have a go at you. Send them away, they have a pop at that as well. When I asked him, he really showed great courage. He wanted to win. He has been a real good horse and did everything beautifully today – he deserved that.” Ryan Moore on Auguste Rodin

“In the past I used to have 220 horses. Now we have 40 horses and unfortunately they are not that good. We have to keep up our enthusiasm for it. We have to do our best with what we have, but winning a race at Royal Ascot makes it easier! Saeed bin Suroor after winning the Royal Hunt Cup

“Saeed provided me with my first Royal Ascot winner [Benbatl in 2017] and he’s given me another one today. Saeed has been integral in my career. I am very grateful to him and his Highness Sheikh Mohammed, and all the people who work for Godolphin.” Oisin Murphy on winning on Wild Tiger

“Jamie gave him a super ride. Jamie is brilliant here, and we’ve had a great association for a number of years.” Kevin Ryan on Ain’t Nobody in the Windsor Castle

“It is a well-trodden quote that this is our Olympics. We’ve got our classics but this is the most important flat meeting of the year, so to get on the board is important as you only get so many chances.” Jamie Spencer after winning the Windsor Castle Stakes.

Thursday

“It is very hard as you are up against breeding operations which have been going for 30 or 40 years. That really is the way to get the Derby-type horses, so we said if we could get some sharp juveniles, it would give us some action coming through.” Richard Brown on behalf of Wathnan Racing after Shareholder’s success

“It is great to have a superpower like this really getting behind British racing. It’s been a tough sell, our sport, hasn’t it, so we have to really take note when people want to invest, and they deserve all the success.” James Doyle on Wathnan Racing

“She looks like she’d be a lovely Irish Oaks filly now as she stays well. And Ryan was brilliant on her – he didn’t panic even when the second went by. It was class.” Aidan O’Brien on Ribblesdale winner Port Fairy

“I’d say it is a million to one. It was really impossible to come back from what he came back from. At one stage we weren’t sure he would live. This horse has got back to the very top level, which is just incredible. No horse has ever been x-rayed, scanned more in their life, than him. He had to be redone, redone, redone. At every little bit. Then when he came back into training, it was every day – was it moving? Was it changing? Was it getting better?” Aidan O’Brien on getting Kyprios back from injury

I thought at every stage it was never going to happen. When there are that many people working together in that kind of a special way, anything was possible. Nobody was for themselves. Everyone was for him.” Aidan O’Brien after Kyprios won the Gold Cup

“Every year Ryan rides, he gets better. Every year he has ridden for us, he gets better. He is the complete package and puts it all in, in every way – he is so committed, so straight, so loyal, so dedicated, such an athlete. And every year, he improves.” Aidan O’Brien on Ryan Moore

“He does absolutely nothing at home and never tells you where the limit is, but he’s got size and scope… It is like winning the lottery, this race, and you can never be confident at all. It’s a great day for the whole yard.” Ed Bethell on Mickley winning the Britannia Stakes

“This week is about having the horses that have a chance of winning. They are so hard to find here, it’s so competitive. When you have a horse and you know how good it is, and it’s in the right race and doing everything right at home, then you can ride them with confidence.” Sean Levey on Jayarebe, winner of the Hampton Court Stakes.

“It’s not too often you hit the half a furlong marker and you look to see if anything is coming in a race like this.” James Doyle after English Oak’s win

Friday

“Ryan gave Fairy Godmother an incredible ride. She’s an incredible filly, isn’t she? We thought she couldn’t get beat the first day, and couldn’t believe she got beat. Ryan was super-cool on her. We knew Ryan was going to produce her late and we knew she had a devastating turn of foot because she showed it the last day – what she did then was very rare, but to come up another level and do it here is unbelievable,” Aidan O’Brien after the Albany

“I gave Fairy Godmother an impossible task and she got me out of a hole. It’s incredible that she was able to win from that position, so all credit to her. She is a very good filly,” Ryan Moore

“I saw Fairy Godmother run last time and I said to Aidan, ‘when you see that turn of foot, which she obviously has, you know she’s a good animal.’ Today, she just showed how good she is. I want to mention the breeder, Paul McCartan, thanks to him. He knows how to breed, let’s put it that way,” Winning co-owner Michael Tabor

“I think he is just going to get quicker and better at this job. He’s a joy to train, an absolute legend. It was a very easy watch. It is very different ground than how it was at Haydock, which always makes you nervous, but he is a great striding horse. (On training for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum) “He is a great owner to have. He’s a pleasure to train for. He takes the pressure off you,” Kevin Ryan after the Commonwealth Cup

“He’s a unit of a horse, you see how long it took me to pull up. He has a lot of class. He’s quick and when I got off him after the Guineas, before I had even opened my mouth, Kevin said he was a sprinter.” Tom Eves on Inisherin

“Porta Fortuna is so uncomplicated. Tom gave her a lovely ride, I was happy the whole way and everything went to plan. It’s not too often you can say that so I’m delighted. All along, she hasn’t got the credit she deserves. She has never missed a beat.She had two runs before Royal Ascot last year and has literally never missed a race since. She’s incredibly sound, incredibly tough. It is a testament to all the team at home,” Donnacha O’Brien

“It’s so special. We all come to Royal Ascot primarily because of the Royal Family’s presence. It came up on my Facebook memories – Hollie and I were here 11 years ago before I’d even ridden in a race, with my family, and we both looked a bit fresher and baby-faced, but this was the dream. It doesn’t get much better.” Tom Marquand

“She loves it here, we love it here, I think she’s such a kind filly, she’ll just relax and you can do whatever you want, and when it comes time she just lays it down on the line for you, and that’s all you can ever ask. She is the best we’ve got. I wish I had a barnful of horses like her, but they’re hard to come by.” Phillip Shelton of co-owner Medallion Racing

“It is the most emotional I’ve felt about riding a winner. It is very special riding one for my father at Royal Ascot, and a great bunch of owners. They might not get home for a while, to be honest, but they’re dead right. Dad only has a small number of horses, and we’re mainly a breaking and pre-training yard now, so to have a horse like him in the yard is brilliant.” Colin Keane

“Everything just worked out great. We never even thought we would have a runner – that’s our first runner here.” Gerard Keane

“We had a horse with Willie Mullins called True Self, with a lovely girl called Breda Miley who was always with us, but she’s passed away since. We raise money for cancer, and Colin rode True Self for us. I met Colin in Hong Kong. One night, I said to him, just for luck, can you buy us a horse and we’ll go with you again. I’d say, nearly two years to the day, Colin rings me and says I’m going to buy a horse tomorrow I like at the sales. I said go on then, and he organised it,” winning co-owner Neville Eager