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If we don’t respect ourselves, can we really expect anyone else to? Perhaps we should stop standing back for sponsors and start standing up for racing.
9th February 2016
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If we don’t respect ourselves, can we really expect anyone else to? Perhaps we should stop standing back for sponsors and start standing up for racing.
‘We could scarcely believe our ears, turned around in disgust and went back home where we could at least watch proceedings in some comfort’
Measures to prevent a repeat will be part of the planning for all future J&B Met days
The 39th renewal of the R2,5 million Gr1 J&B Met looks relatively straightforward on paper. Last year’s winner Futura is fit and looks ready to go in again – if he can get to the progressive year younger Legal Eagle, whose recent sensational L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate victory thrust him into the spotlight at the top of the betting boards
“If it has four legs and is feeling good, it’s running. My horses are all really well and ready for action.”
L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner and popular J&B Met favourite Legal Eagle took his next small steps to a giant leap into South African horseracing history, when he put up a superb gallop and drew perfectly at stall-gate 3 for the big race
Those arriving between 7 and 8 in the morning will receive a complementary entrance ticket to the Met, which takes place at Kenilworth on Saturday, January 30.
The latest log for the R2,5 million Gr1 J&B Met to be run at Kenilworth on 30 January sees last Saturday’s sensational L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Legal Eagle supplant 2015 Met winner Futura at the top of the table.
The final Met declarations are due by 11h00 on Monday 18 January on which day the final field will be announced
The 2015 Met winner and current SA Horse Of The Year Futura heads the first log for the R2,5 million Gr1 J&B Met to be run at Kenilworth on 30 January.
Some opinion suggests that Paterfamilias really only won so easily, because of extremely poor runs and some poor luck in running from his opposition.
‘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’
