While Aidan O'Brien had his first quiet day at Royal Ascot, the Irish onslaught continued unabated when Jim Bolger stepped in to fill the breach. A high-profile double, which Lush Lashes completed after Cuis Ghaire had landed the opener, leaves British trainers facing a whitewash in the daily feature races.

Their collective face can only be saved in today's Golden Jubilee Stakes, which hosts strong challenges from Australia, New Zealand, France and of course, Ireland. The surprise is almost that Bolger has not declared Lush Lashes for the group one sprint, so frequently does he ask his horses to race.

Lush Lashes plainly thrives on it. This was her fourth visit to Britain inside seven weeks - and easily her most productive. Her Musidora Stakes triumph was sandwiched between fruitless runs in the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks, yet she stripped fresh and eager for her inaugural championship triumph.

So much so that Infallible, kept in reserve since her luckless fourth place at Newmarket, was the one to wilt. John Gosden's charge loomed up to Lush Lashes approaching the final furlong but it wasn't long before she surrendered. Her stamina looked suspect at Newmarket, and so it proved here as Lush Lashes stretched out imperiously to register by 3 lengths.

Bolger's ability to keep horses on song throughout arduous campaigns has been a feature of his career. Should he achieve his next objective in winning the Irish Oaks with Lush Lashes, she will rank alongside the likes of Give Thanks and Flame Of Tara, the latter a Coronation Stakes winner for Bolger 25 years ago.

As with Michita, the Ribblesdale Stakes winner on Thursday, Lush Lashes hated the contours of Epsom when she contested the Oaks. “It wasn't the [12-furlong] trip that beat her, it was the track,” Bolger said. “While I was hopeful today, I didn't think she could win in that style.”

Kevin Manning, who rode Lush Lashes, had earlier posted his first Royal Ascot triumph aboard Bolger's Cuis Ghaire in the Albany Stakes. The odds-on chance required a fair degree of driving before she asserted her class for a 1-length verdict over Penny's Gift. It will take a good one to lower her colours this season.

Bolger attributed her mid-race sluggishness to the six-furlong journey. “She already needs seven furlongs or even a mile,” he said. “I have been excited about her since this time last year, when she was grazing in the paddocks at home.”

Lush Lashes and Cuis Ghaire share much in common. Both are by Galileo, both run in the colours of Bolger's wife, Jackie, and since Manning is Bolger's son-in-law, there was much for the family to celebrate. Mind you, as the trainer put it: “That angle does make it special but the counter side is that if I go down, we all go down together.”

One thing over which Bolger refuses to yield is the ongoing debate over New Approach's late participation in the Derby. He maintained yesterday that he was misquoted in the preamble, yet when one journalist played Bolger's words in April back to him, the trainer's retort was deadpan. “I am a trainer and a farmer, not a barrister.”

Ryan Moore's drought has deflected attention from the barren trot this year of Royal Ascot's favourite son. Yet within two races of Moore snapping his wretched sequence, Frankie Dettori was among the winners. It was copybook stuff, too, as Dettori rode his rivals to shame with a fine, front-running display aboard Godolphin's Campanologist.

Moore, riding Conduit, was among several duped by Dettori. The Italian kicked hard off the final bend to seize an advantage which Conduit, who was caught flat-footed at the change of pace, could never retrieve. “I have been on suicide watch,” Dettori quipped. “The boys in the weighing room have been hiding the ropes and the knives - even Princess Anne gave me a bit of stick yesterday.”

Consolation for Moore arrived in the shape of Patkai, who landed the Queen's Vase with sufficient authority to entertain thoughts of a St Leger bid. Patkai's trainer, Sir Michael Stoute, has never won the season's final classic, yet he dominates advance betting with Stan James. Tartan Bearer is a 7-2 chance, with Patkai and Conduit quoted at 6-1.

Steve Drowne continued his winning sequence yesterday when riding his third of the week aboard Supaseus in the Wolferton Handicap. With fancied mounts in Proponent and Sakhee's Secret to come today, Drowne may yet overhaul Johnny Murtagh in the final jockeys' standings.