Klawervlei Stud’s four time G1 winning stallion Twice Over had a handsome update to his pedigree when his relative Ombudsman won the G1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday.

Trained by John and Thady Gosden, four-year-old Ombudsman overcame trouble in running to claim his biggest win to date.

Ombudsman, ridden by William Buick in the blue silks of Godolphin, was repeatedly short of room until over a furlong out, but he picked up strongly when in the clear and won going away by two lengths.

Last season’s Champion Stakes winner Anmaat, who had every chance when produced to lead inside the final couple of furlongs, finished runner-up, while See The Fire, the only filly in the race, was a further two and a half lengths back in third.

Ombudsman, a son of Night Of Thunder, failed to make it to the racecourse as a juvenile but progressed well as a three-year-old and won all four starts in 2024, notably the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange at Longchamp.

He had been an encouraging runner-up to Almaqam, when giving away 3 lb, in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes on his return at Sandown last month.

Ombudsman, who has won five of six starts, is out of Syndicate, whose fourth dam Lost Virtue is the third dam of Twice Over.

This is also the family of this season’s top-class son Cosmic Year, who ran second in the 2025 G1 Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas.