Horse of the Year Variety Club, who has not raced since winning the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate in January, will attempt to repeat last year’s win in the Rising Sun Gold Challenge at Clairwood on 8 June.
Derek Brugman, racing manager for owner Markus Jooste, said yesterday: “Variety Club will return to Cape Town the day after the race and go straight into quarantine in the hope that the European Union, whose inspection team come out here at the end of the month, will relax the regulations in time for Variety Club to run in the Breeders’ Cup in November.”
Brugman added that the Breeders’ Cup organisation is lobbying the legislators in America in a bid to get the present 60-day lockdown for South African horses reduced.
Red Ray, so impressive in the Jooste colours at Kenilworth before beating all except Willow Magic in the SA Nursery at Turffontein nine days ago, will be based in Durban for the next few months - but not to race.
Brugman said: “He will spend the winter there to get a bit of sun on his back and he will return to Cape Town in the early spring. At this stage we haven’t planned when he will run again.”
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