Six Jockeys and six trainers in today’s renewal have won the Met previously.
The weather men predicted a scorcher and it’s here! Around 16h05 today new champions will be crowned.
Robbie Fradd steers La Fabulous to victory in the 1996 Met for Vaughan Marshall (Pic – Hamish Niven Photography)
Justin Snaith goes for a third straight Met win after Double Superlative and Jet Dark in the past two years, after saddling his maiden Met winner courtesy of Oh Susanna in 2018.
Vaughan Marshall grabbed the spotlight with One World in 2020, and prior to that with Hill Fifty Four in 2014 and La Fabulous back in 1996.
Sean Tarry provided veteran Garth Puller with his final Met winner Alastor in 2005.
Brett Crawford won the Met with Whisky Baron in 2017, Futura in 2015 and Angus in 2003.
Alec Laird saddled Smart Call to win in 2016, while London News is the famous winner in 1997.
Ricky Maingard saddled the fabulous grey Wolf Power to victory in 1984.
In the saddle, Gavin Lerena steered Kommetdieding to victory in 2022.
JP van der Merwe rode Smart Call as a late call-up in 2016.
Grant van Niekerk won the big one on the 3yo filly Oh Susanna in 2018.
Richard Fourie won it in 2023 on present day Drakenstein stallion, Jet Dark.
Plattner Power as Yogas Govender and Aldo Domeyer celebrate Martial Eagle in 2013 (Pic – Supplied)
Aldo Domeyer upset the odds on Martial Eagle in 2013.
Piere Strydom names Angus in 2003 as his only Met success.
The first recorded winner of the Metropolitan Mile, as it was originally known in 1883, was Sir Hercules and, while the Met had a chequered existence for many years in the early 1900’s, by the 1960’s it was firmly established as one of the ‘big three’ races in the country alongside the Durban July and the Summer Cup in Gauteng.
