Just six runners will go to post for tomorrow's Princess Of Wales's Stakes, the richest race on the opening day of the Newmarket July meeting.
Neither Godolphin's St Leger winner Mutafaweq, sole surviving three-year-old entry Hataab nor Endless Hall, who won a Group One race in Italy for Luca Cumani last month, were declared for the £60,000 event today.
And Mark Johnston has withdrawn Murghem, winner of a rated stakes at Epsom and Listed events at Leicester and Newmarket last month.
He relies instead on Yavana's Pace, who chased home stable-companion Fruits Of Love in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot.
"The plan had been possibly to run Murghem but we felt that the race was coming a little soon after his last race and he has a lot of other options coming up," the trainer explained.
"Yavana's Pace is in great shape."
Godolphin run Sea Wave in the Group Two contest, which will have its smallest field since a four-runner line-up in 1992.
But thehorsesmouth.co.uk Cherry Hinton stakes will have a double-figure field for the fourth year running, after 12 two-year-old fillies stood their ground today.
George Duffield, successful on Giant's Causeway in Sandown's Coral-Eclipse Stakes for Aidan O'Brien last Saturday, again steps in for Michael Kinane on Freshwater Pearl for the Ballydoyle trainer.
