Ascot's not limited to spurring and whipping (9)

I believe the answer is:

scourging

'whipping' is the definition.
(scourging is a kind of whipping)

'ascot's not limited to spurring' is the wordplay.
'not limited' says to take the centre.
'to spurring' becomes 'urging' ('urging' can be a synonym of 'spurring').
The middle letters of 'ascot' are 'sco'.
'sco'+'urging'='SCOURGING'

'and' is the link.

(Another definition for scourging that I've seen is " punishment".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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