Frankie Dettori’s hopes of winning the one particular race missing from his CV before he retires appear to be over after he was handed an eight-day whip ban for his ride on Inspiral at Royal Ascot.

The Darley July Cup, at his home course of Newmarket, is the one domestic Group One to have eluded the 52-year-old, who will retire at the end of 2023.

He was hoping to have a final crack at it aboard Ralph Beckett’s dual Group 1 winner Kinross, but was found by the British Horseracing Authority’s Whip Review Committee to have used his whip seven times in the Queen Anne Stakes on John and Thady Gosden’s filly when second to Triple Time.

That is one over the allotted number of six on the flat, which triggers a four-day ban – and as the race is a Group 1 that penalty is doubled.

With Dettori already due to be serving a nine-day ban due to run from July 4th-12th inclusive for causing interference on Saga in the Wolferton Stakes – which he is appealing – his whip ban would begin after that suspension has been served, ruling him out of the July Cup on July 15th. His dates of suspension for his whip ban are July 13th-15th and 17th-21st.

Oisin Murphy was also found to have broken the whip rules at Royal Ascot, receiving an eight-day suspension for using his whip seven times on Valiant King, runner-up in the King George V Stakes.

Murphy is sidelined from July 11th to 15th and from July 17th to 19th.

Both jockeys will be free to ride in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Saturday, July 22nd, should they pick up a ride in that classic.