Phumelela Gaming & Leisure have reserved the right to provide an input into the official big race logs and to the composition of the final field of twenty runners for the R2 million G-Bets Gauteng Gr1 Summer Cup, which will be run over 2000m at Turffontein on Saturday 1 December.
Master Sabina wins the 2016 Summer Cup
Phumelela will also pay the road transport costs of all runners in the race that are not based on the Highveld.
The National Horseracing Authority will publish the race logs showing the progressive likely final field contenders from 28 September.
The winner will earn R1,2 million down to R10 000 for the eighth finisher.
A bonus of R1 million is offered to the horse that wins both the 2018 G-Bets Gauteng Summer Cup and the 2019 Sun Met.
The Summer Cup time table:
First Entries close at 11h00 on Tuesday 25 September 2018
Second Entries close at 11h00 on Monday 5 November 2018
Weights will be published on Monday 5 November 2018
Final Entries close at 11h00 on Monday 19 November 2018
Declarations are due by 11h00 on Tuesday 20 November 2018
The allotted weights may change up to the time of declarations, but there will be no changes to the weights after the Final Field has been published.
