RAIN on top of ground which had been watered provided unsatisfactory going on the second day of Ascot’s King George fixture, and that may have been partially responsible for a surprising result in the opening Princess Margaret Stakes.

The Group 3 contest was won by James Tate’s Under The Stars (P J McDonald), a daughter of 2000 Guineas winner Night Of Thunder who showed marked improvement from her winning debut at Ripon. She beat Albany Stakes third Aroha (Brian Meehan/Harry Bentley) and Karl Burke’s Beverley novice winner Living In The Past (Frankie Dettori), with warm favourite Summer Romance disappointing having been difficult in the preliminaries.