Only six to contest East Cape Guineas

Danie Toerien

The R250,000 Bryanston Auctioneers East Cape Guineas (Listed) over 1600m to be contested on Friday 20 March has attracted a rather disappointing field of just six runners.

Alan Greeff will saddle four of the runners, with Juan Nel and Western Cape raider Justin Snaith each having a single string on their bows.

When declarations closed at 10:00 on Monday 16 March, a total of ten runners had been scratched from the 15 original entries.

However, Snaith's runner In A Timely Manner was not considered timed out and found himself "unscratched" at around 10:30, to bring the final field to six runners.

The East Cape Guineas is also the second leg of the East Cape Sophomore Challenge.

The final field, in order horse, weight, merit rating, jockey, and trainer, is:

Action America 60 - 80 S'manga Khumalo, Juan Nel

Diamond Jim 60 - 76 Kendall Minnie, Alan Greeff

Anotherdanceforme 58 - 110 Richard Fourie, Alan Greeff

Augusta Rosso 58 - 86 Luyolo Mxothwa, Alan Greeff

Silva City 58 - 99 Ryan Munger, Alan Greeff

In A Timely Manner 60 - 92 Juan Paul v'd Merwe, Justin Snaith