Sabine Plattner has decided to advertise for a replacement for Yogas Govender. Applicants are required to submit CVs to odette.pretorius@hpc-office.com  by Friday week.

The fact that Mrs Plattner is advertising only now, and that Govender had no stables lined up when his contract came up for renewal at the end of last month, suggests neither party had expected to split.

Cape Guineas third Kingvoldt, joint top-rated horse of the 17 in the 1 000m Pinnacle at Kenilworth on Saturday, will miss the race. However Joey Ramsden says he may be represented by Happy Forever.

My World, third to Big Ed in Saturday’s Jonsson Workwear Handicap, is being aimed at the East Cape Derby at Fairview on 10 May.

Stan Elley said: “I gave him a two month break so that I could build towards the East Cape and he will have one more run before that. I won the Fairview race with Practical Joker many years ago and Red Badge was second in it.”

Big Ed, who completed a hat-trick when getting up close home under regular partner Gareth Wright, will be kept to low key events for the time being. Shane Humby was quick to rule out Durban.

Richard Fourie is now rated among the very best by former mentor Basil Marcus after the July-winning jockey threw everything at Garden Feature in an inspired ride that enabled him to conjure victory from what looked certain defeat.

Marcus said: “Richard was always a good listener and he has matured into a great jockey, as good as there has ever been.”

Greg Cheyne (pictured) is only seven short of his first South African century for six seasons. He followed up Friday’s Fairview treble with an ultra-confident ride on Ashram whose medical history amazes even Glen Kotzen and part-owner Peter de Beyer.

Kotzen said: “She fractured the whole of the bottom of her near-fore pastern as a two-year-old, and had to have a lot of screws and pins inserted. Even now she wouldn’t go through a metal detector!”