The 2016 Rider Cup, an Inter-Provincial contest between leading jockeys from the Highveld; the Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, is set to take place at Scottsville Racecourse on Sunday, 10 July 2016.

Gold Circle has extended invitations to riders based on their positions on the National Jockeys’ Log as at the end of May and, if all accept, the teams will shape up as follows:-

THE HIGHVELD HAWKS

S’mango Khumalo (Captain)

Andrew Fortune

Karl Zechner

JP van der Merwe

First Reserve: Gavin Lerena

THE CAPE EAGLES

Grant van Niekerk (Captain)

Aldo Domeyer

Bernard Fayd’herbe

Teaque Gould

First Reserve: Corne Orffer

THE KZN FALCONS:

Anthony Delpech (Captain)

Anton Marcus

Muzi Yeni

Keagan de Melo

First Reserve: Ian Sturgeon

The competition will be decided over four legs and apart from the bragging rights, medals and the floating trophy, an amount of R100 000 will be up for grabs, with the winning team receiving R48 000; the runners-up R30 000 and the also-rans R20 000.