Gerrit Schlechter aims to resume race-riding next week after being sidelined for almost three months.

He has not ridden since he won at Kenilworth on Beyond Limits for Brett Crawford on June 2 when he returned in such pain that he had difficulty getting off the horse.

He said: “I thought at the time it was a muscle spasm but when I went to the doctor he discovered that I had torn a ligament that holds one of my vertebrae.

“That has now healed and I resumed riding work last week. It will take one or two rides to really get back into things but I am due to start race-riding again on September 1.”

Schlechter is one of a select band of jockeys to have won both the Vodacom Durban July (Eyeofthetiger) and the J & B Met (Past Master).

The courageous Jet Explorer, who recovered to race again after smashing his top and lower jaws in last year’s Rising Sun Gold Challenge, is to race on as a seven-year-old.

Justin Snaith said: “He is having a proper holiday at the moment – he didn’t get one last year – and we will see how he comes out of his first run before deciding where we go with him.”

No decision has yet been taken on whether the Mike Bass-trained Inara will stay in training in a bid to repeat last season’s wins in the Maine Chance Paddock Stakes and the Klawervlei Majorca.

Owner-breeder Gaynor Rupert said: “We are discussing this at the moment. We will see how she is but Durban didn’t suit her.”

Last month’s Champagne winner Lanner Falcon, second in the 2013 Cape Fillies Guineas, is to stay in training but Jet Belle, third in both the Paddock and the Majorca, is to be retired to visit Trippi. So too is last year’s SA Oaks winner Ash Cloud.

By Michael Clower