J&B Met Winner Going Strong At 20
They all say, ‘Is that THE Angus? Oh wow, I didn’t know he was still around,’ and he’ll prick his ears and puff himself up to say ‘yes, and I deserve a carrot!
30th January 2018
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They all say, ‘Is that THE Angus? Oh wow, I didn’t know he was still around,’ and he’ll prick his ears and puff himself up to say ‘yes, and I deserve a carrot!
The J&B brand has invested significant resources to ensure the staging of this prestigious horseracing event. Over time it has grown to become one of South Africa’s grandest social occasions and the country’s longest-standing sports sponsorship
The last prep work has been done and all that’s left is to get them to the course on time. We chat to all the trainers with runners in the 2016 J&B Met
The outstanding J&B Met and L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Futura is highly ranked in the Longines World Rankings
Justice had been served since, after winning the Gold Cup in 1962, Speciality had run close seconds in the July, the Queen’s Plate and the Met in which he ran 5th 2 ½ lengths behind The Giant in 1964. It was as one paper put it, “Third Time Lucky”.
The last few weeks have passed by in a blur with the Cape in frenetic overdrive to squash in as much as possible in the run up to the Met
The 37th J&B Met went up the hill and full steam ahead on a beautiful Kenilworth afternoon on Saturday.
The 2014 J&B race meeting was a triumph for locally bred stallions. All three of the day’s Gr1 winners were sired by SA bred stallions.
Geoff Woodruff is the only trainer who will take on the boys with a member of the fairer sex in next Saturday’s J&B Met.
With the J&B Met nearing, the focus has fallen on some new rules and the benefits enjoyed by Racing Association members in the Cape.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
