diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/payloads/TestBoostingNearQuery.java b/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/payloads/TestBoostingNearQuery.java
index f46aca64fda..c031eb97833 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/payloads/TestBoostingNearQuery.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/payloads/TestBoostingNearQuery.java
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ public class TestBoostingNearQuery extends LuceneTestCase {
 		TopDocs hits;
 
 		query = newPhraseQuery("field", "twenty two", true);
-		QueryUtils.check(query);
 		
 		// all 10 hits should have score = 3 because adjacent terms have payloads of 2,4
 		// and all the similarity factors are set to 1