FRENCH visitors have had a pretty thin time of things at Royal Ascot over recent years. Gallic raiders have been a feature at this fixture for a very long time – this year marks the 150th anniversary of the first French winner in 1874 – but since Qemah landed the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes for Jean-Claude Rouget in 2017, there has been just one successful cross-Channel raid in the last six years, when the 20/1 outsider Watch Me carried off the Coronation Stakes in 2019.