Oisin Murphy scored his first winner at this year’s Royal Ascot as Dashing Willoughby landed a gamble in Wednesday's Queen’s Vase.

Murphy did not enjoy the best start to the week after failing a breath test before racing at Salisbury on Sunday, but he put that incident well behind him as he steered Andrew Balding’s charge to victory.

Nayef Road set the pace in the 14-furlong heat with Barbados on his heels, while Murphy maintained a watching brief on the 6/1 winner and it was between those three from some way out.

Dashing Willoughby seized the initiative coming into the final two furlongs and despite drifting across the track, he held on by half a length, with Murphy punching the air as he passed the post.

Barbados snatched second for Aidan O’Brien, with the Mark Johnston-trained Nayef Road sticking to his guns well in third.

Bet with William Hill here