Amiloc holds off Zahraan in ‘Ascot Derby’

Amiloc obliged favourite-backers to remain unbeaten and give Ralph Beckett his first victory at this year’s Royal Ascot courtesy of the King Edward VII Stakes.

An impressive winner of Goodwood’s Cocked Hat Stakes, the fact the son of Postponed is a gelding meant he had to bypass the Derby at Epsom for the race often referred to as the ‘Ascot Derby’.

Ryan Moore tried to slip the field on eventual third Galveston, but Rossa Ryan aboard the 11-8 market leader never let that duo too far out of his sights and after sending Amiloc to the front with a furlong to run, had enough in reserve to hold off Johnny Murtagh’s Zahraan by three-quarters of a length.