Ante-post favourite Franconia ruled out of Musidora due to mucus issue

Franconia, an impressive winner of the Listed Abingdon Stakes, is out of Thursday's Tattersalls Musidora Stakes at York due to a bad scope.

The daughter of Frankel, trained by John Gosden, was ante-post favourite for the Group 3 but drifted in the market to 11-4 (from 13-8) with Sky Bet on Tuesday after Frankie Dettori was booked to ride stablemate Ricetta.

Ricetta, also owned by Khalid Abdullah, was backed into 7-4 favourite (from 6) with the same firm on Tuesday.

Tattersalls Musidora card

Gosden said: "I scoped Franconia on Tuesday morning after she gave a cough at exercise and we got the results back this morning which showed she had a mucus issue so we had to take her out.

"I switched Frankie on to Ricetta yesterday when I thought it was unlikely that Franconia could run."

The filly, due to be ridden by Graham Lee, was declared a non-runner on Wednesday morning.

A half-sister to Nassau Stakes winner Winsili, Franconia was second on her debut at Chelmsford last year before scoring readily at Newbury last month.

Ricetta is now a top-priced 5-2 favourite with bet365, with the Roger Charlton-trained Pocket Square – also owned by Khalid Abdullah – next best at 4-1.

The daughter of Camelot is unbeaten in two starts, both at Newmarket, and steps up to Group company for the first time.

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