Mambo Mime, winner of last Friday’s Byerley Turk, is set to return to Greyville for the Canon Guineas on May 6 while the fillies’ equivalent could be the target for Fromafar who sprang a 22-1 shock in the Umzimkhulu Stakes.

Mambo Mime (Nkosi Hlophe)

Dean Kannemeyer said yesterday: “The draw at Greyville is very important and hopefully Mambo Mime will draw well in the Guineas. If he draws badly I will have to discuss plans with Fieldspring Racing.

“He was in need of his previous run and I thought he would be tough to beat from his one draw on Friday but he is a big horse and I don’t believe I have him fully stripped yet.

“Fromafar won exceptionally well – I would have been thrilled if she had just finished in the first four – and I will enter her for the Canon Fillies Guineas. She and Mambo Mime are both on the up.”

The Mike Bass-trained Nightingale, ridden with exceptional confidence by Grant van Niekerk when coming from last to take the Oriental Restaurant Handicap, will be stepped up in class.

Candice Robinson said: “She will run in the Fillies Guineas and then go for the Woolavington on May 28. She is a very nice filly.”

Peninsula Handicap winner and J & B Met fourth Light The Lights, who had the Vodacom Durban July as his target, has been sold to Mike de Kock and is en route to Dubai.

The four-year-old’s former trainer Glen Kotzen said: “It was a shame in a way (to part with him) but they offered us the right money.”

By Michael Clower