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:-
Smanga Khumalo – captains Highveld Eagles
THE HIGHVELD HAWKS
S’mango Khumalo (Captain)
Andrew Fortune
Karl Zechner
JP van der Merwe
First Reserve: Gavin Lerena
Grant Van Niekerk – captains Cape Eagles
THE CAPE EAGLES
Grant van Niekerk (Captain)
Aldo Domeyer
Bernard Fayd’herbe
Teaque Gould
First Reserve: Corne Orffer
THE KZN FALCONS:
Anthony Delpech – captains 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.
