Three years ago Brett Crawford won the Grand Parade Cape Guineas with Elusive Gold for a client of Hong Kong-based trainer Tony Millard and at Kenilworth on Saturday he bids to stage a repeat with Craven.

This colt, who carries the colours of YH Yue (known in Hong Kong simply as Mr Yue), has started at a short price in all his four starts. Millard and the owner have been intent on having a top jockey throughout, with Andrew Fortune committing himself for all the horse’s races this season.

Bernard Fayd’Herbe (Nkosi Hlophe)

Fortune’s injury changed that, so Anthony Delpech was booked for the Guineas – only to break his collarbone. Now Bernard Fayd’Herbe, who won on Elusive Gold, flies in from Dubai.

Crawford also runs Selangor runner-up Edict Of Nantes, who will be ridden by stable jockey Corne Orffer.

A New Dawn, who made the running in the Selangor, has the same job, only faster, for probable favourite Table Bay, hence the decision to supplement him.

“We want a very strong pace so that Table Bay can sit further back,” said Mayfair Speculators’ racing manager Derek Brugman.

Glen Kotzen is bullish about the chance of Selangor winner Gold Standard, saying: “He is doing great and absolutely flying. He has cracked at decent draw (No 7) and we are very excited. Look at the time of the Selangor (less than a second outside Legislate’s course record). It was a proper-run race.”

A notable absentee is Our Mate Art, who now has the Investec Cape Derby as his target.

“He got a very hard knock when he was cut into in the Selangor. We had him x-rayed and found he had chipped a piece of splint bone,” said Candice Bass-Robinson. “He is on antibiotics at the moment but he is in light work.”

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