Joey Ramsden is considering again sending horses to Johannesburg in the first few months of the season and these could include Mercury Sprint runner-up Attenborough.

Attenborough

The Milnerton trainer said: “He is a good horse who just needs to be ridden in a certain way. He ran a good race in the Mercury Sprint – he got caught wide and the winner got first run on him – and he will return to Cape Town when they lift the restrictions.”

Dutch Philip, only tenth of 14 in the Mercury, left Summerveld with others of Candice Bass-Robinson’s string on Saturday morning and will spend two weeks in Touws River before being allowed to continue to Cape Town.

His trainer said: “It was the draw and racing wide in the Mercury but I don’t think he is as effective round the turn. It might be different, though, if he is drawn on the rails.

“I may well geld him when he gets back. He is not going to be a stallion and he is quite coltish. He will then have a break before returning for the Cape summer season.”

Stable companion Tevez will run in his fourth successive Kenilworth Pinnacle on Saturday when he will be ridden by Ryan Munger for the first time. The now nine-year-old was not suited by the slow gallop when starting joint favourite last time and managed only fifth.

Anton Marcus flies in to take just one ride – the Brett Crawford-trained Water Spirit for his new retainer Ridgemont in the three-year-old fillies maiden – while Anthony Andrews rides for the first time since damaging his shoulder in a pens accident at the end of April.

By Michael Clower