Dean Kannemeyer is toying with the idea of having a crack at the Sansui Summer Cup with his Vodacom Durban July hero Power King.

He said: “In weight-for-age races like the J & B Met Power King would be only about a kilo off the top weight so, with the satellite yard I now have at Summerveld, maybe we should continue to train him there and raid Johannesburg for top races like the Summer Cup (November 28).

“This is something that I have been giving thought to and I will talk to Lady Laidlaw about it and also discuss it with Jehan Malherbe.”

Kannemeyer has had success with raiding Jo’burg in the past, but from Cape Town, notably with Free My Heart in the 2002 Horse Chestnut. He sent the seven-time Grade 1 winner by plane four days before the race and he won comfortably.

Free My Heart went on to win the Champions Cup but Kannemeyer has no regrets about taking Power King out of last Saturday’s big race, saying: “The July was tough, he ran his heart out and he was tired afterwards.”

By Michael Clower