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Leading rider Richard Fourie, sidelined since bruising his neck and shoulder in a fall in the Rising Sun Gold Challenge, will return to race riding at Kenilworth on Tuesday.

Fourie returned to riding trackwork last week after doctors gave him the go-ahead.

Fourie has decided to partner ruling favourite Legislate in the Vodacom Durban July in preference to In The Fast Lane, the horse he partnered to victory in both the Avontuur Cape Fillies Guineas and the Woolavington.

“When Legislate won the KRA Guineas I knew that he was the horse I wanted to ride in the July,” Fourie said.

“If he wasn’t running I would definitely want to be on In The Fast Lane. She has a big chance at the weights.”

Legislate will be Fourie’s fifth July ride. The closest he has come to a win was seventh on Russian Sage in 2008.

Grant van Niekerk is now set to ride In The Fast Lane. She will be only his second ride in the race after he was beaten a short head on 55-1 shot Smanjemanje two years ago.

Lesgislate’s trainer Justin Snaith, successful with dead-heater Dancer’s Daughter in 2008, is also keen to run Readytogorightnow as well as last year’s runner-up Run For It.

He said: “MJ Byleveld may ride Run For It and Muzi Yeni could possibly be on Readytogorightnow.”

The Snaith-trained Jet Explorer, fifth last year, continues to respond to treatment in the Summerveld Equine Hospital from the injuries he suffered when he fell in the Gold Challenge.

Snaith said: “The bones are all in place and we are just hoping that they knit as they should. The horse is doing well.”