Murtagh has no doubts about Thomas

JOHNNY MURTAGH has a second King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes victory in his sights with Dylan Thomas at Ascot today.

Murtagh takes the reins on Aidan O’Brien’s charge for the first time since the pair grabbed third behind Sir Percy in last year’s Derby.

And Murtagh, who won the midsummer feature on John Oxx’s Alamshar in 2003, believes the mile-and-a-half contest is still one of the highlights of the season, despite what is generally acknowledged to be a below-par field this year, with no three-year-old representative.