Justin Snaith packs heat for the Met

The perils of long-haul travel might have dissuaded top Cape Town trainer Justin Snaith from the big purse temptation of Joburg's Summer Cup, but there's no question about his enthusiasm for an upcoming big race in his own backyard.

- Mike Moon

Snaith has put up no fewer than nine of the 31 first entries for the WSB Cape Town Met, due to be run over 2000m at Kenilworth on 25 January next year.

It's not just the R5-million prize money and a Grade 1 trophy the national champion is hunting. He's also aiming for three wins in a row in Cape Town's premier horse race - having won with Jet Dark in 2022, and Double Superlative in last year.

And a victory would be his fourth in the Met; the breakthrough having come with the filly Oh Susannah in 2018.