Nine-time Irish champion Pat Smullen will need help from his teammates if he is to lead the visitors to victory in Sunday’s International Challenge. The winner of 25 grade1 races, including the 2016 Irish Derby on Harzand, Smullen has not drawn any standout mounts at the Turffontein track. However, he could possibly go close on four-year-old Dromedaris in the sixth race. Even so, Robbie Sage’s stayer is not one to risk too much of the rent money on as chances in this 3,000m handicap can be given to Sess — the mount of Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Corey Brown — and Geoff Woodruff’s runner Ali Bon Dubai, ridden by Martin Dwyer. In the opening international race — the fourth race — Smullen will be hoping that two runners from the Woodruff stable can run well for Seamie Heffernan and PJ Macdonald. The former partners Australian-bred newcomer Flaming Hot while stablemate Secret Portion made a promising debut over a shorter trip in October. The South African captain, Anthony Delpech, has ...
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