First Entries - J&B Met 2012

english garden

I'm with the Apache, - If he does not run again before Met,
his recored in the last 6 races reads first - Dingaans, fourth Kzn Guineas, first Daily News, fourth July, first Champions Cup, 4th Summer Cup, and now first JB Met LOL

Solo Traveller in the hands of De Kock carrying 106 looks a bit frightening!

Garrick Wrote:

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> Solo Traveller in the hands of De Kock carrying
> 106 looks a bit frightening!
Will he stay ???

Golden |Sword has never won a Gr 1, unlike most of the field, and as such has escaped the once-off Gr 1 winner's penalty. That could make him very dangerous, if he can be made ready in time. However, we'd need to see him in action locally before getting carried away, as he has not been out since the last Dubai World Cup.

bad company Wrote:

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> DWTD queens plate and met double, she is gonna
> shit all over ebony flyer in the queens plate

I look forward to Team Valors response....

3-1 IGUGU with Sportingbet.

id like to climb all over that 3/1 before igugu wins by 20 lengths on sunday!

gregbucks Wrote:

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> bad company Wrote:
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> > DWTD queens plate and met double, she is gonna
> > shit all over ebony flyer in the queens plate
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> I look forward to Team Valors response....


No need for Oom Valor to respond here, we can make our own conclusions......To quote a section of a little something I read somewhere......."She is the best South African filly we have had and that includes Ipi Tombe, Irridesence, Gypsy's Warning".

If she is better than Ipi Tombi then all better watch out.

Bushy Wrote:

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> id like to climb all over that 3/1 before igugu
> wins by 20 lengths on sunday!

She'll probably win, but 20 lengths? I highly doubt it.<

-DThe champ is back igugu all the way

All the big guns have been entered for the R2,5 million J&B Met to be run over 2000 m at Kenilworth Racecourse on Saturday, January 28 and the race has been given an international flavour by the entry of Chester Vase and Irish Derby runner-up, Golden Sword.



The list of 34 entries released on Thursday is headed by Vodacom Durban July winner Igugu. Trainer Mike de Kock’s ambitions of taking the Equus Horse of the Year to Dubai for the Carnival were thwarted by an outbreak of African Horse Sickness and the subsequent ban on exports from South Africa.



However, the ban has ensured that this year’s J&B Met will probably draw one of the strongest fields seen out in many a year and holds a possible re-match between the two superb fillies, Igugu and Ebony Flyer.



Other top entries include recent Sansui Summer Cup winner Dancewiththedevil, runner-up Ilsanpietro, Pierre Jourdan and The Apache.



Former KRA Guineas winner Solo Traveller, now with De Kock, is also among the initial entries along with SA Classic winner English Garden.



Dean Kannemeyer has entered two of his top three-year-old colts in the unbeaten Divine Jet and Liancourt Rock while Greg Ennion has nominated Astro News.



The Irish-bred Golden Sword, by former Derby winner and top international sire High Chaparral, was bought by De Kock out of the Ballydoyle yard of Aiden O’Brien.



As a three-year-old, Golden Sword won the Chester Vase and finished second behind stable companion Fame And Glory in the Irish Derby. He was also fifth in the Investec Derby behind the unbeaten Sea The Stars.



Golden Sword has been rested since a relatively undistinguished Dubai campaign and has not been out since finishing unplaced in the Dubai World Cup back in March this year.

by AH