RAINBOW Bridge is the new favourite for the Vodacom Durban July after winning the Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge at Greyville last Sunday on his first start since going so close under Ryan Moore in the Met five months earlier.

Champion-elect Warren Kennedy rode the Ideal World five-year-old for the first time and allowed him to pull his way to the front in the first furlong (“I thought he would come out a bit fresh, not having run for such a while, but he was enjoying it where he was”).