Blue Point, beaten in his first five Group 1 races in England and Hong Kong, proved the spoiler in Tuesday’s Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, finishing 1 3/4 lengths in front of the highly regarded Battaash. The Kentucky-based Lady Aurelia, the 2-1 favorite who won the 2017 King’s Stand, finished seventh, beaten 5 1/4 lengths. In another Group 1 race on the first day of the Royal Ascot meeting, Without Parole remained unbeaten after four starts with a half-length win over Gustav Klimt in the St. James’s Palace Stakes for 3-year-old colts. Blue Point (6-1) was ridden by William Buick, who had his mount always near the front in the $714,813 King’s Stand Stakes, run at five furlongs on a straightaway course. Blue Point took the lead from pacesetter Battaash in the final furlong. “Things have not gone his way in a lot of races,” Buick said. “Today, everything fell right and to make him a Group 1 winner is very satisfying. “He is a very quick horse and I was always very comfortable where I was and I knew he would see the race out better than Battaash. He’s proven at six furlongs. It was just a case of whether I would be close enough where it mattered.” Battaash, a 9-4 chance who won the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye last October at Chantilly, France, held second, finishing a neck ahead of 20-1 Mabs Cross. Bucchero, who won the Grade 2 Woodford Stakes at Keeneland last October, finished fifth for Kentucky-based trainer Tim Glyshaw. Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Bucchero was near the front for the opening furlong and lost fourth place at the wire. Blue Point, a 4-year-old colt by Shamardal, has won 6 of 13 starts for Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin Racing and trainer Charlie Appleby. Blue Point has won four stakes, three of which have been at Ascot. Last October, Blue Point won the Group 3 Bengough Stakes at six furlongs at Ascot. On April 29, Blue Point was last of nine in the Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize at six furlongs on turf at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong, racing wide for the first half-mile before fading from contention against a group of tough locals. “Last time out, we got it wrong and it was a race we had to put a line through,” Buick said. “There was no point judging him on that and he’s been in great form since.” Without Parole was the second group stakes win of the day for trainer John Gosden and jockey Frankie Dettori, who teamed to win three of the day’s six races. In the preceding race, they teamed to win the Group 2 Coventry Stakes for 2-year-olds at five furlongs with 2-1 favorite Calyx. Without Parole, the 9-4 favorite in a field of 10, started in a Group 1 for the first time in the $714,813 St. James’s Palace Stakes. Racing from a stalking position, Without Parole took the lead with more than a furlong remaining, although Dettori feared he had reached the front too soon. “Without Parole traveled well, but a furlong and a half out I was out, I was in front on my own with no one to help me,” Dettori said. “I wish I had somebody to keep me company, but that race made a man of him. What a horse he is. This is the first proper race he has had.” Gustav Klimt, sent off at 8-1, finished 3 3/4 lengths in front of Wootton, also an 8-1 chance. Without Parole, by Frankel, races for owners and breeders John and Tanya Gunther, the couple who also bred Triple Crown winner Justify. The $198,000 Coventry Stakes drew a field of 23, which broke into two groups in the six-furlong race. Calyx was prominent in the group that raced closest to the grandstand and took the lead with a quarter-mile remaining. Calyx won by a length over 10-1 Advertise, who finished a neck in front of 3-1 Sergei Prokofiev, a $1.1 million yearling purchase at Keeneland last September who is trained by Aidan O’Brien. Calyx, a colt by Kingman, races for Juddmonte Farms and has won both of his starts. He won an allowance race at Newmarket on June 9. Gosden was quick to praise the long-term potential of Calyx, who is likely to run in the Group 1 Prix Morny at Deauville, France, on Aug. 19. “He does make you get up in the morning,” Gosden said. Dettori and Gosden later won the day’s final race, the $132,000 Wolferton Stakes at 1 1/4 miles for older horses, with 8-1 Monarchs Glen.