Report: Solow to Miss Royal Ascot Stakes

Wertheimer and Frere's Solow, a five-time group I winner last year, will not make a scheduled start in the June 16 Queen Anne Stakes (Eng-I) at Royal Ascot.

The Racing Post May 10 reported that Solow will instead be sent to the Wertheimer farm in Normandy, France, to recuperate from an injury he sustained while training. "He will return to Freddy Head when he has totally recovered," racing manager Pierre-Yves Bureau said, according to the Racing Post.

Solow, a 7-year-old Singspiel gelding, was expected to race this year in the March 26 Dubai Turf (UAE-I) but missed that start as well.

The Queen Anne, at one mile for 4-year-olds and up, had shaped up as a matchup between Solow and Robert Masterson's Tepin, the 2015 champion grass mare in the United States. The Bernstein mare won last year's Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT), and has won all four of her starts this year including the May 7 Distaff Turf Mile (gr. IIT) at Churchill Downs.

Trained by Mark Casse, Tepin in April won the grade I Jenny Wiley Stakes at Keeneland, and before that captured the Hillsborough Stakes (gr. IIT) and Endeavour Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Tampa Bay Downs.