Only four runners will go to post for Saturday's totesport.com Celebration Mile at Goodwood.
The track has been hit by torrential overnight rain, forcing the abandonment of Thursday evening's meeting, but the weekend's action has been given the green light.
The four to make up the line-up are headed by Sir Michael Stoute's Main Aim, set to be ridden by Eddie Ahern. Stoute has an enviable record in the Group Two heat, having won six of the last 10 renewals. Richard Hannon's Vitznau, the Bryan Smart-trained Summer Fete and Saeed bin Suroor's Poet's Voice complete the quartet.
The Marcus Tregoning-trained Finjaan, Godolphin's Rio De La Plata, the Aidan O'Brien-trained Beethoven, Mark Johnston's Rainfall and Chris Wall's Premio Loco, have all been taken out.
Wall has had the race in mind for Premio Loco since the Sussex Stakes, but did not want to risk his stable star on unsuitable ground and may bring him back to seven furlongs at the St Leger meeting.
"I don't want to run the horse on very soft ground, and I appreciate that they probably called Thursday's meeting off to preserve the ground for the weekend, but it can only be very soft," said Wall.
"It's been the plan for a while and looked a good opportunity for him, but it hasn't worked out and we'll have to move on to Plan B. That might be to run him in the Park Stakes at Doncaster but we'll just have to see what the ground is like.
"The Sussex Stakes proved to us that Group Ones are going to be tough for him. If we didn't go for the QEII, there is a race at Longchamp on Arc weekend for him, the Prix Daniel Wildenstein."
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