Candice Bass-Robinson still harbours Grade 1 ambitions for Horizon despite the record-priced colt managing only fifth when starting odds-on for the Investec Cape Derby.

Horizon (Liesl King)

She said: “Horizon is going to Durban and he will be aimed at the Daily News (May 27). In the Derby they went too slowly for him and they turned it into a sprint.”

Elevated, second in the Cape Classic and fourth in the Guineas, fared even worse in the Derby and finished last.

Riaan van Reenen said: “His lungs were full of mucus. I shouldn’t have run him but you only get one shot at that race and I took a chance.

“He has been having a rest ever since and he is fine again now. I am going to prepare him for the Winter Series at Kenilworth.”

By Michael Clower