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Rizeena will attempt to take her 100 per cent record at Ascot to four when she goes for the Duke of Cambridge Stakes at the Royal meeting next month.

The Clive Brittain-trained filly will not take up her engagement in the Lanwades Stud Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday as connections eye a third victory on racing's premier stage.

Winner of the Group Two Queen Mary Stakes in 2013, she lifted the Group One Coronation Stakes last summer and is to return for the Group Two fillies' and mares' contest.

Added to that, the first win of her career came in a five-furlong maiden at Ascot in May 2013.

Rizeena disappointed on her seasonal debut when only seventh of eight to Bragging in the Dahlia Stakes, but connections feel she did not stay the nine furlongs and will be suited by the return to a mile at her happy hunting ground.

"She goes straight to Ascot for the Duke of Cambridge at Ascot," said Bruce Raymond, racing manager to owner Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum.

"I think she needed the race at Newmarket and she definitely didn't stay. The mile at Ascot is right for her."