Made To Fly! Jackson is early favourite for the Met
A total of 31 entries was received at first stage for the 2013 R2,5 million Gr1 J&B Met to be run over 2000m at Kenilworth on 2 February. Daily News 2000 winner Jackson has been priced up a 2-1 favourite, with Horse Of The Year Variety Club available at 9-2.
The entry list includes such notables as 2012 Vodacom Durban July winner Pomodoro, who made a winning return to racing with a sensational sprint victory at Turffontein last month and the Gr1 Ladbroke’s Gold Cup winner In Writing.
SA Classic winner Slumdogmillionaire, who galloped after the sixth race at Clairwood on Sunday and has not seen action since his momentous victory, is also amongst the entrants.
The Betting:
1 VARIETY CLUB 9/2
2 JACKSON 2/1
3 BRAVURA 33/1
4 BEACH BEAUTY 20/1
5 POMODORO 5/1
6 RUN FOR IT 25/1
7 SLUMDOGMILLIONAIRE 33/1
8 CASTLETHORPE 66/1
9 MASTER PLAN 33/1
10 TRIBAL DANCE 20/1 14/1
11 CHANGINGOFTHEGUARD 50/1
12 ENGLISH GARDEN 33/1
13 IN WRITING 66/1 100/1
14 KING OF PAIN 5/1 6/1
15 TAIPAN 25/1
16 BLACK WING 100/1
17 FABIANI 100/1
18 GOLD ONYX 50/1
19 ICE MACHINE 66/1
20 BULSARA 100/1
21 CASK 100/1
22 DUBAI GINA 100/1
23 ASTRO NEWS 25/1
24 THUNDER DANCE 66/1 100/1
25 HILL FIFTY FOUR 50/1
26 LOVE STRUCK 50/1
27 MUJAARIB 20/1 14/1
28 MYSTIC MOON 100/1
29 BAMBINA STRIPES 100/1
30 JET EXPLORER 100/1
31 HAMMIE`S DYNASTY 100/1
The 31 entrants in order of merit rating are:
HORSE A/S WGT M/R TRAINER
VARIETY CLUB (4C) 0.0 118 Joey Ramsden
JACKSON (4C) 0.0 116 Brett Crawford
BRAVURA (6G) 0.0 113 Joey Ramsden
BEACH BEAUTY (5M) 0.0 110 Dennis Drier
POMODORO (4C) 0.0 110 Sean Tarry
RUN FOR IT (5H) 0.0 109 B Justin Snaith
SLUMDOGMILLIONAIRE (4C) 0.0 109 Gavin van Zyl
CASTLETHORPE (AUS) (5G) 0.0 108 Mike Bass
MASTER PLAN (4G) 0.0 108 Greg Ennion
TRIBAL DANCE (4C) 0.0 108 Vaughan Marshall
CHANGINGOFTHEGUARD (4C) 0.0 107 Justin Snaith
ENGLISH GARDEN (5G) 0.0 107 Mike Bass
IN WRITING (ARG) (7G) 0.0 107 Dean Kannemeyer
KING OF PAIN (3C) 0.0 107 Joey Ramsden
TAIPAN (4C) 0.0 107 Dean Kannemeyer
BLACK WING (5G) 0.0 106 Brett Crawford
FABIANI (7G) 0.0 106 Glen Kotzen
GOLD ONYX (NZ) (5G) 0.0 106 Sean Tarry
ICE MACHINE (4G) 0.0 106 Garth Puller
BULSARA (6G) 0.0 104 B Gavin van Zyl
CASK (6G) 0.0 104 S H Page
DUBAI GINA (AUS) (4F) 0.0 104 Vaughan Marshall
ASTRO NEWS (4G) 0.0 102 Brian Wiid
THUNDER DANCE (4F) 0.0 102 Brett Crawford
HILL FIFTY FOUR (4G) 0.0 101 Vaughan Marshall
LOVE STRUCK (3G) 0.0 99 Paul Lafferty
MUJAARIB (AUS) (4C) 0.0 98 Mike de Kock
MYSTIC MOON (5G) 0.0 98 C Darryl Hodgson
BAMBINA STRIPES (A (4F) 0.0 97 Dennis Drier
JET EXPLORER (4G) 0.0 95 Justin Snaith
HAMMIE’S DYNASTY (4G) 0.0 93 Mike Bass
Trainers should diarise the following important dates:
First Supplementary Entries closes: 11:00 Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Final Supplementary Entries closes: 11:00 Monday, 14 January 2013
Weights will be published Monday 14 January 2013
Declarations close at 11:00 on Monday 21 January 2013
