No July Cup bid for Campanelle as Wesley Ward takes US raiders back home

There will be no rematch between Commonwealth Cup rivals Campanelle and Dragon Symbol in next month’s Group 1 Darley July Cup as the US filly is due to be shipped home from Newmarket on Wednesday together with the rest of Wesley Ward’s Royal Ascot party.

Ward does not usually have to rely on the stewards to get on the board at the five-day royal meeting but did so last week after Campanelle had finished a head adrift of Dragon Symbol in the Group 1 under Frankie Dettori

After a long deliberation, officials decided to reverse the placings in controversial circumstances at Ascot following which the original plan for the revised winner was to give Dettori another chance to finally break his duck in the July Cup, in which he has finished runner-up for the last two years.