Oratorio, who upset the Epsom Derby winner, Motivator, in the Eclipse Stakes on July 2, will miss his intended date in the Juddmonte International Stakes because of an unspecified injury.
His trainer, Aidan O'Brien, said that Oratorio had emerged from his Eclipse triumph suffering from stiffness. His work program has been interrupted, and so he will bypass the 1 1/4-mile and 88-yard Juddmonte International, a Group 1 event on Aug. 16 at York.
Lisa Cropp became the first woman to win a national riding title on Sunday when she completed the 2004-05 New Zealand racing season atop the jockey standings with a record 197 victories.
Cropp, 35, broke the national record for most victories, the 193 ridden in the 2001-02 season by Lance O'Sullivan, widely regarded as the greatest jockey in New Zealand history.
Cropp's 197 winners, which left her 73 ahead of the runner-up, Hayden Tinsley, came from 1,261 mounts for earnings of $1,330,026.
Alexander Goldrun won her fourth Group 1 race in her fourth different country at Goodwood in England on Saturday with a solid score in the $350,000 Nassau Stakes.
Ridden, as always, by Kevin Manning, the 4-year-old Alexander Goldrun came from last to first in the 11-runner field of fillies and mares to defeat Cassydora by 1 1/4 lengths, traveling the 1 1/4 miles in 2:08.02 on good to soft ground.
Divine Proportions makes a sooner-than-expected return to the races at Deauville on Sunday, when she will use the straight mile of the Group 1 Prix d'Astarte against older fillies and mares as a prep for her clash with Valixir and Dubawi in the Prix Jacques le Marois on Aug. 14.
Alexander Goldrun returns to her best distance of 1 1/4 miles for the $350,000 Nassau Stakes at Goodwood on Saturday, when she goes in search of her fourth Group 1 victory in her fourth different country.
Trained by Jim Bolger, Alexander Goldrun won the Prix de l'Opera at Longchamp and the Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin last year. An Irish-bred daughter of Gold Away, she added the Pretty Polly Stakes on her home turf at The Curragh on June 25 to her list of accomplishments.
Goodwood specialist Court Masterpiece used his experience at the West Sussex, England, track to score a hard-fought decision over Jack Sullivan in the Group 2, $217,000 Lennox Stakes on Tuesday. Twice the winner of listed races at Goodwood, Court Masterpiece (4-1) caught Jack Sullivan (33-1) inside the final furlong and held on to prevail by a short head, getting the seven furlongs in 1:26.23.
Soviet Song looks difficult to beat at Goodwood on Wednesday when she defends her title in the $523,000 Sussex Stakes, the first of four weight-for-age Group 1 miles which serve as the European run-up to the Breeders' Cup Mile.
The James Fanshawe-trained 5-year-old mare was most impressive last time when cruising home against her own sex in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes on July 5. Last year in this race she held off Nayyir by a neck, and that one reopposes off a promising seasonal debut when a close third in the Group 3 Criterion Stakes at Newmarket on June 25.