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Premiers Champion winner Harry’s Son is a definite runner in the G1 Grand Parade Cape Guineas at Kenilworth on Saturday week after his trainer Paul Lafferty made arrangements to have the colt flown to Cape Town from his Durban base.

Lafferty said: “It’s a real safari by road. We will land in Cape Town early on the morning of the race and fly him back again afterwards.”

Piere Strydom, who has ridden the Australian-bred in his last four starts, will again have the mount. Strydom won the Guineas on Pointing North in 2008.

Harry’s Son was beaten four and a quarter lengths by 55-1 shock winner Unparalleled when favourite in the Investec Dingaans last time but Lafferty was satisfied with the performance.

He said: “The heavens opened 40 minutes before the Dingaans and the ground became an absolute bog.

“I thought they were going to have to cancel racing. Our horse ran his heart out but he couldn’t get near one who loved the going.

“I have great respect for the other horses in the Guineas, especially Joey Ramsden’s Act Of War who I think is a superstar, but we are not going to shirk the challenge.

“We’ve got to get down there and take them on.”

Generalissimo, who broke the Kenilworth 1200m record last month but failed over a mile in the Selangor, has not been entered.

Dennis Drier said that there are no definite plans for the colt at this stage.

“I will freshen him up and then bring him back sprinting,” Drier said.