O'Brien and Moore on the mark for day two with Southern Hills in Windsor Castle

It took until the final race for the all-conquering Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore to get on the board on day two of Royal Ascot as Southern Hills won for the first time in the Windsor Castle Stakes.

The son of exciting first-season sire Gleneagles, sent off a 7-1 shot, was the third winner of the meeting for the champion trainer in Ireland and he saw off the Saeed Bin Suroor-trained Platinum Star in second by half a length.

The striking chestnut was always handily positioned throughout but saw daylight from the two-furlong mark and, in another excellent ride from Moore, came clear of his rivals.

O'Brien said: "Southern Hills is a fast horse. These Gleneagles are fast and brave, those are the two traits his stock seem to have. I think five or six furlongs will be his trip, he's got a lot of speed and I'm not sure he'd get much further."

Southern Hills: shows all his courage in the testing conditionsCredit: Mark Cranham

The juvenile holds an entry for the Group 2 Railway Stakes later this month and the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes in August, a race his trainer has won 16 times previously including with Air Force Blue and Caravaggio.

The 6-1 joint favourites, Symbolize and Temple Of Heaven, could only finish fourth and 13th respectively.

There was drama beforehand as the Richard Fahey-trained Show Me Show Me got loose but was eventually caught and withdrawn.

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