Grant van Niekerk, given a 14-day suspension on Friday for an interference offence at Fairview on March 2, said yesterday that he will not appeal.

As the Review Board does not sit again until August 3, when the members can be expected to impose a ban that will have almost immediate effect, he will be free to take his big race mounts in much of the rest of the KZN season.

Grant Van Niekerk

The Fairview suspension was Van Niekerk’s first since January although he does face an inquiry as a result of the interference suffered by Made To Conquer when Strathdon (Van Niekerk) came in on him in the closing stages of last Saturday’s Lonsdale Stirrup Cup.

Candice Bass-Robinson, who won the Cape Of Good Hope Nursery and the fillies equivalent with Dutch Philip and Magical Wonderland 12 months ago, again has a strong in the two features at Kenilworth on Saturday.

She runs half the field in the Kenilworth Fillies Nursery with Nous Voila (Aldo Domeyer), Mixed Signals and Santa Clara. Nous Voila was second in the Perfect Promise and the other two won last time out. In the Cape Nursery she and Domeyer rely on Clouds Unfold who has won two out of three and was immensely impressive last time.

Joey Ramsden, last successful with Kingvoldt four years ago, runs three in this six furlong test and all his three runners finished behind One World a week ago – Carnage who was beaten only a fifth of a length, Lucky Dancer (fifth) and Arabian Air who started favourite but finished fourth and was found to be not striding out.

By Michael Clower