Rabada, injured in the Charity Mile nine days ago, is to undergo further tests in an effort to discover the full extent of the problem.

Rabada (Nkosi Hlophe)

Brett Crawford said: “His near-fore was quite swollen after the race. We are not quite sure what it is and we are going to have to rescan the leg but he will be rested for three months.”

Last season’s Daily News winner was the original favourite for the Sansui Summer Cup but Vodacom Durban July winner The Conglomerate is still as short as 14-1 despite finishing only ninth in the Charity Mile.

Joey Ramsden, reporting him on the course for the big Turffontein race on Saturday week, said: “He was fine afterwards. It was just that he didn’t catch a draw and he was slowly away.”

Stable companion Table Bay (Anton Marcus) will start at short odds for the Selangor Cup at Kenilworth on Saturday, not least because he has 7kg in hand on official ratings. Ramsden, bidding to win the Grade 2 for the fifth time in six years, said that going straight to the Cape Guineas was never really an option – “there is such a big gap between the Cape Classic and the Guineas that you have to do something in the meantime.”

Marcus also partners the highest merit-rated in the Lanzerac Ready To Run whose winning purse is five times as much as the Selangor at R1.25 million. The Vaughan Marshall-trained Grade 1 winner Always In Charge has a theoretical 2kg in hand over the next best, Sergeant Hardy. Anthony Delpech rides this one for Justin Snaith.

By Michael Clower