Probable favourite Carry On Alice will be ridden differently in the Betting World Cape Flying Championship at Kenilworth on Saturday after hold-up tactics failed to pay off when she was odds-on for the Sceptre Stakes last time.

Sean Tarry said: “She doesn’t have to be held up but she was slowly away in the Sceptre and she was then crossed by another horse. We will change tactics in the Cape Flying.”

The dual Grade 1 winner was third to Alboran Sea 12 months ago but is versatile and has run well in races up to a mile, posing the question of whether she has a best distance. “She hasn’t won over a mile,” Tarry pointed out. “She was a short head second in the Thekwini (to Same Jurisdiction) as a two-year-old and that gave us the confidence to go on with her at a mile but I think she is best in sprints.”

S’Manga Khumalo’s mount is the highest rated horse in Saturday’s race but the handicappers make her only half a kilo better that last year’s fifth Trip Tease (Piere Strydom) who broke through the pens in the Pinnacle on Queen’s Plate day and had his starting stall cert withdrawn.

Louis Goosen said: “He cut his lip on that occasion but he is fine now, it’s behind us and he runs on Saturday.”

This will be the five-year-old’s first actual race since his second to Doing It For Dan in a Listed handicap on the Vaal sand four months ago. Asked if the gelding would need the run, Goosen replied: “Probably.”

By Michael Clower

Picture: Carry On Alice (Nkosi Hlophe)