Ascot’s beefed up security measures have desired effect on day one

• No incidents of any significance, the track reports
• Ascot to keep the measures in place for rest of festivalThere were “no incidents of any significance” on the first day of Royal Ascot, where heightened security measures were in place to prevent any repeat of the drunken violence that marred a meeting at the same course in May.The procedures included extensive use of sniffer dogs both at the racecourse entrance and throughout the enclosures to target racegoers in posse