Affairs tested after Anne defection

Michael Stoute’s Home Affairs has undergone tests to ascertain the extent and nature of the injury that forced his 11th-hour withdrawal from Tuesday’s Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The progressive colt looked an unlucky loser in Epsom’s Diomed Stakes at the start of the month and was expected to put up a bold show at Ascot until found to be lame following his final piece of work on Sunday morning.