Wesley Ward has ruled out any chance of his impressive Norfolk Stakes winner No Nay Never running against his elders in the Nunthorpe Stakes at York.

The American challenger looked head and shoulders above his rivals at Royal Ascot last week in the paddock and proved it out on the track, staying on strongly to be Aidan O'Brien's Coach House.

He will head to Deauville in August for the Prix Morny next, after which Ward will plot where he goes for the rest of the season.

"He's arrived back home and he's fine," said California-based Ward.

"He's a beauty, he just breezed differently to anything I'd ever had before and I knew straight away he was special.

"The Morny is the target now, the timing is beautiful. He's a big bruiser so the travelling doesn't bother him and the spacing between the races is perfect.

"I'll get some sturdy breezes into him and if there's no chinks in his armour that's where he'll go."