Nathaniel can reign again in KG

In this afternoon's King George (4.35) at Ascot, Nathaniel will bid to become the first horse since Swain (1997/98) to win successive runnings of the Group 1 race.

A rapidly progressive sort in his three-year-old season, he ran on really strongly to see off the wayward Workforce when winning this race last year.

While he was in receipt of a very healthy weight-for-age allowance on that occasion, the form looks very strong and he had one of today's rivals, St Nicholas Abbey, well beaten back in third place.