George remains Washington-bound

Aidan O’Brien’s brilliant 2000 Guineas winner George Washington is on course to run in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in two weeks’ time.

The Danehill colt has suffered two reverses since his Newmarket success, floundering in soft ground behind Araafa in the Irish Guineas, after which he was found to have injured hip muscles, before a ring-rusty third in the Celebration Mile at Goodwood.