BRETT Crawford will give both Champions Cup winner Futura and Captain America (pictured) their first runs of the season in the Green Point Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday week.

He said: “Futura is doing well and he will run even from his bad draw (17). Captain America has taken his gelding really well and has been putting in some good work.”

Captain America, second in both the Grand Parade Cape Guineas and the Investec Cape Derby, won last season’s Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes and Crawford again has a strong hand in Saturday week’s R2 million race.

His intended runners include last week’s Kenilworth winners Alexis (third on the log) and Star Of Paris. His other entries include Night In Seattle and Valerin.

The final field and draw will be announced at the sponsor’s Stellenbosch hotel on Thursday when Morgan Deane Smith will be in attendance as one of the ambassadors of the race. The singer is the wife of former South African cricket captain Graeme Smith.

However Cape Classic winner Act Of War, who headed the list when the entries were announced last week, goes for the Selangor Cup on the same day. Joey Ramsden said: “The Lanzerac entry was a mistake. He is not qualified for that Ready To Run race.”

Ramsden, who has won two of the last three runnings of the Selangor, also expects to run Kingvoldt in the mile test. He said: “I took him to Kenilworth last Saturday to work him over six furlongs and he put up a smashing gallop.”

Picture: Wayne Marks