QUICKTHORN made it two winners on the day for jockey Oisin Murphy by staying on very strongly in the soft turf to win the Duke Of Edinburgh Handicap over a mile and a half.

The winner, a four-year-old gelding by Nathaniel, was the 7/2 favourite for this 14-runner affair (eight non-runners) having come into the race off a wide-margin Haydock win on easy ground last month.