Aldo Domeyer, forced to give up his rides at Durbanville on Saturday, aims to be back this week after picking up an infection following his hectic 18-winner 11-day Cape championship chase.

Captain America

He said on Saturday: “I think all that travelling caught up with me. I am on antibiotics and I am trying to get some rest.”

Rest is what Champions Cup winners Captain America and Sail South will have from now on. Both have been retired.

Brett Crawford said: “Sail South has gone to his owners (Nigel and Jenny Pott plus Gill Dempsey) in Plettenberg Bay while Captain America will go to the Steenberg Golf Estate.”

There has been surprise in some quarters that Captain America, so clearly at the top of his game, has not been kept in training for a further season.

Crawford said: “He won so well that he could have done but personally I think it is fantastic that he has gone out at the top. He has won three Group 1s and he has had the weight of the stable on his shoulders for four of the last six years.”

Stable companion Lady Of The House, winner of last year’s Woolavington, is apparently destined for a new career as a broodmare. She was due to be sold by Mayfair Speculators at the recent Central Route Trading Sale but was withdrawn beforehand. According to sales boss Grant Knowles, she was purchased by Ridgemont.

By Michael Clower