INTERNATIONAL campaigner Dermot Weld avenged the narrow defeats of Vinnie Roe and Vintage Crop in the Gold Cup as Rite Of Passage gallantly claimed the highlight on Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot yesterday.

JIM Bolger’s pair of top-class fillies, Finsceal Beo and Lush Lashes, could clash in the Audi Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

DUAL Ascot Gold Cup winner Yeats could have the stage kept clear for a third victory with stablemate and market rival Septimus possibly missing the showpiece event next month.

Rod Millman’s ever-popular Sergeant Cecil is on course to contest the Prix Royal-Oak at Longchamp on October 22.