Bela-Bela will end her great racing career in the World Sports Betting Champions Cup at Greyville on Saturday week.

Bela-Bela VDJ 2017 (Nkosi Hlophe)`

Owners Varsfontein indicated in the stud’s newsletter at the end of last week that the triple Grade 1 winner will be retired to stud at the end of the season and Snaith Racing, successful with Futura two years ago, yesterday confirmed her a Champions Cup runner with Anthony Delpech again in the irons.

The four-year-old is 11-2 third favourite with the sponsors and if she wins she will be the first of her sex to land the Champions Cup in at least the last 16 runnings.

Goodtime Gal, unplaced behind Bela-Bela in the Maine Chance Paddock Stakes in January but beaten less than three-quarters of a length when third in the Klawervlei Majorca three weeks later, heads the 12 runners for the Final Fling Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday. Mike Robinson has booked Greg Cheyne for the four-year-old.

Justin Snaith, who has won three of the last four runnings of this 1 800m Grade 3, will be double-handed with A Time To Dream (Bernard Fayd’Herbe) and Harvard Crimson (Corne Orffer).

By Michael Clower