Panther pounces for tearful Owen

MICHAEL OWEN was in tears in the winner’s enclosure after his Brown Panther turned the King George V Stakes into a procession.

Sent off the 4-1 joint-favourite, the home-bred scooted clear under Richard Kingscote to give the jockey and trainer, Tom Dascombe, their second winner of the week following Rhythm Of Light in the Sandringham 24 hours earlier.

There were plenty of hard-luck stories on the home bend, no more so than the runner-up Census but the sixth-length winning margin could, in truth, have been a lot more.