All Blacks coaching legend Sir Steve Hansen says the pressure of coaching on rugby's biggest stage is different from being an owner at Royal Ascot this week.
Hansen and some of his closest Kiwi mates share in the ownership of champion sprinter Nature Strip, one of the favourites for Wednesday's King's Stand Stakes at the famous Royal Ascot meeting outside London.
Nature Strip takes on US speed freak Golden Pal in the early hours of Wednesday in what will be the international highlight on the opening day of the five-day meeting.
Trained by expat Kiwi Chris Waller and ridden by the jockey many think could be New Zealand's greatest in James McDonald, Nature Strip is Aussie bred but will also fly the New Zealand flag.
Nature Strip has already won the A$14 million Everest in Sydney this season, so the King's Stand is far more about prestige than the money, and Hansen knows this is the greatest stage.