Trainer Brett Crawford has had a good Champions Season and will be looking to end on a high with a G1 double at Greyville on Saturday.

He will attempt to retain his G1 Beach Beauty Champions Cup crown and also looks to have a lively chance in the G1 Gold Cup.

Crawford won the Champions Cup over 1800m last year with Jackson and will attempt a repeat with another Dynasty colt Futura, who is coming off a fine third in the Durban July over 2200m.

Crawford said Futura had come out of the race exceptionally well when a slow pace was his undoing.

Wylie Hall crossed the line first in the July, before being demoted, and Futura is now 1kg worse off. However he is drawn in pole position compared to Wylie Hall’s wide draw of ten.

Crawford’s Gold Cup hopeful Wavin’ Flag had the blinkers removed before his last outing in the G2 Gold Vase over 3000m at Greyville.

It paid dividends as he ran on strongly to be beaten just a neck by Hot Ticket, whom he will now meet 0.5kg better.

Wavin’ Flag has a fair draw of seven and with his light weight looks to have a big chance.

“Winning races like this is what we are here for, so we hope he can turn the tables,” said jokey Glen Hatt.

The Crawford yard also has Dancing Dynasty in the weight for age G2 Gold Bracelet over 2000m and this might be her last run before retiring to stud.

She is back in grade from the G1 Garden Province Stakes over 1600m after winning her first two KZN starts.

She showed class when beating her stable companion Luna De Victoria in a minor feature over 1800m at Scottsville in her first KZN start by five lengths and the form of that race was franked when the latter won a feature at Scottsville last Sunday.

She also won her second KZN outing over 1900m at Clairwood in a Conditions event.

Trainer Glen Kotzen has pulled off a fine training feat by getting Alexander into the Gold Cup with a light weight, which was his aim from the start of the season.

The four-year-old Dynasty gelding has come out of his fast finishing second over 2200m on Durban July day “very well” according to the trainer and has to carry only 52,5kg.

“His racing weight and blood pictures are tops. I think he is the horse to beat,” Kotzen declared.

“One of the reasons he is so good is that he looks like a sprinter and yet is a stayer.”

Alexander has won over 2800m and his pedigree is full of stamina so the trip should be right down his alley.

The yard run the well-bred Western Winter colt Light The Lights in the G1 Premier’s Champion Stakes with Stuart Randolph up.

“His last run was a bit of a flat run and I think he needed it as it came about two months after his previous run. He came out of it fantastically and he will be a huge runner on Saturday, but will have to get lucky from the draw,” Kotzen said.

Kotzen also rated his G2 Gold Bracelet contender Jet Belle a “serious runner”.

The classy filly proved she stays 2000m when a narrow third in last year’s G1 Woolavington 2200.