Gosden hails Ombudsman among his greats after wowing Royal Ascot crowd

Ombudsman successfully defended his Prince of Wales’s Stakes crown with a brilliant display in Royal Ascot’s day two feature. A quality field of eight runners went to post for the 10-furlong Group One, with John and Thady Gosden's Ombudsman the 11-10 favourite to become the first horse to go back-to-back in this event since the Gosden-trained Muhtarram in 1995.

In a race run at a furious gallop as the pacesetting pair of Devil's Advocate and Mississippi River went at it hammer and tongs in front, William Buick was happy to take his time aboard the market leader before producing him to…