Jockey Grant van Niekerk — sacked by the Hong Kong Jockey Club in April after a conduct-related matter — will try and get his career back on track at Kenilworth on Saturday.

Van Niekerk, 28,  has a number of fancied mounts for top stables — including the four-year-old filly Cruise Along for trainer Candice Bass-Robinson in the Casey Bloomberg Ladies Mile and Flatware for trainer Justin Snaith in the Winter Solstice Stormsvlei Stakes. He has also been booked to partner Royal Return for trainer Eric Sands in the grade 3 Abe Bloomberg Legal Eagle Stakes...

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