Soccer13 Wednesday 4 February 2026. Carry Over R 3 236  252. All 13 CORRECT JACKPOT POOL: R 6 Million (If only One 13 of 13 Winner). Pool Closes at 21h00. Sport 11 Pool 1.

Please Note: South African Quartet Pools with fractional betting offered at Taunton and Wolverhampton (UK) 3 February 2026

Race 1

 

7 ICED MARMALADE improved when the headgear was removed and can go one better than last time. 8 TIMELINE had some fair Cape Town form and has been knocking hard in the East Cape. 1 RIVER FERN will appreciate being back on the poly and can go close. 5 KINGSBOY ran some fair races in KZN and could earn on East Cape debut. (David Thiselton 7-8-1-5)

 

Race 2

 

5 TOTAL ERUPTION went close on East Cape debut in first time blinkers and has a good draw with Fourie up. 1 OCEAN FLAME has been knocking on the door but has a tricky draw over this suitable trip. 2 PRICELESS TREASURE has a fine form chance from a reasonable draw. 3 MISSOURI FLAME is drawn well and has the form to earn. (David Thiselton 5-1-2-3)

 

 

Race 3

 

2 VIHAAN’S QUEEN disappointed last time but is much better than that and goes well for Van Rensburg. 5 FIRST WISH is 3,5kg better off with Ginger Delight for a 5,35 length beating and should get closer. 6 FLIGHT DISPLAY is 2kg better off with Ginger Delight for a three length beating and should be right there, although she does have a tricky draw. (David Thiselton 2-5-6)

 

 

Race 4

 

3 SALAGADOOLA is off a competitive mark and should go close. 4 MONT TREMBLANT is consistent and should be thereabouts again. 1 AETHELWULF is always thereabouts and has a good draw over a trip he will see out. 2 BOMBER BAY should enjoy the step back up to this trip and has a chance. (David Thiselton 3-4-1-2)

 

 

Race 5

 

2 HAZE AND SMOKE has a plum draw and tries the trip again as there is no reason why she should not enjoy it. 4 DESERT CLOUD ran a fine race first time out the maidens and can earn again. 3 GORGEOUS CAPE has a good draw over what should be a suitable step up in trip and she should go close. 5 POMEROL is in fine form and should also relish this trip. (David Thiselton 2-4-3-5)

 

 

Race 6

 

6 KING VISERYS is drawn well for a change and can be right there of producing his best. 8 HOSPICES DE BEAUNE is consistent and has the ability to be in the shake up but has to overcome a wide draw. 2 PORFIRIO won well last time and has to overcome a four point raise and has a tricky draw.  i3 DOWNING SEVEN might enjoy the step down in trip and can’t be ignored. (David Thiselton 6-8-2-3)

 

 

Race 7

 

1 HOT SAUCE has class and should start progressing. 7 MAKE BELIEVE three fine runs and can still improve. 6 HOPE CHEST has some class and bounced back to form last time. 3 HAPPY WIVES is in good form and should be thereabouts. (David Thiselton 1-7-6-3)

 

 

Race 8

 

3 PRINCE FLORIAN has the ability to win and should be cherry ripe. 1 RAVILIOUS should be in the shake up here. 4 NOTORIX has a chance in this line up. 5 CAPTAIN CLEVER has the form to be a contender. (David Thiselton 3-1-4-5)

David Thiselton

See It Again’s WSB Cape Town Met victory highlighted how good the male crop he hailed from was as well as the astonishing lack of interest in Twice Over as a stallion.

Durban-based owner Nick Jonsson, after achieving the extraordinary feat of winning four successive Mets with four different horses, thanked many people after the race and among them was Bernard Kantor, who was responsible for bringing Twice Over to South Africa.

Twice Over has had three multiple Gr 1-winning horses and Jonsson has owned every one of them, which is another feather in the cap for surely the country’s pound-for-pound most successful owner.

The three horses did not just win ordinary Gr 1s either.

Do It Again is one of only six horses in history to win the July twice and he won four Gr 1s in all, including the L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge, which are perennially the two highest rated races in the country, both being weight for age miles. Do It Again went close to winning both the July and the Met, a feat that only seven horses in history have achieved.

Double Superlative’s two Gr 1s were the Cape Guineas and the Met. The former is known as the country’s greatest stallion producing event and Double Superlative is duly standing at stud in the KZN Midlands. His other win was in the WSB Met, Cape Town’s biggest race and one of two Gr 1 Weight For Age races over 2000m in the country. The WSB Met is considered one of the country’s three major races, along with the Hollywoodbets Durban July and Betway Summer Cup,.

See It Again won both of the country’s 2000m classic events as a three-year-old, The Cape Derby at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth and the Daily News 2000. That same season he failed by 0,25 lengths to carry 56,5kg to victory in the July, which would have been a record weight for a three-year-old to carry to victory in the country’s most celebrated horseracing event.

Justin Snaith trained both Do It Again and Double Superlative, while Michael Roberts was See It Again’s trainer for all of his races bar his last two at which time he was moved to the Snaith yard. It was thus Snaith who was his conditioner for his WSB Met win.

See It Again is out of Visionaire mare Supreme Vision, who is a half-sister to Do It Again.

Twice Over’s only other Gr 1 winner was Sand And Sea, who won the Gold Medallion as a two-year-old, but he disappointed thereafter and ended up only having 14 career runs.

Twice Over, who is by Observatory, was a twice winner of the Gr 1 WFA Champion Stakes over 2000m and he also won the Gr 1 Coral Eclipse and Gr 1 Juddmonte International, all of them prestigious WFA races over a distance in all three instances of roundabout 2000m.

Juddmonte did not want Twice Over for stud purposes only due to their overcrowded stallion ranks at the time, which included the legendary Frankel. South Africa thus benefited and Twice Over stood at Klawervlei Stud.

Do It Again was one of Twice Over’s first crop and fetched R1.1 million at the National Yearling Sale, purchased by John Freeman.

However, Twice Over never became fashionable and See It Again was purchased for a bargain R125,000 at the Cape Yearling Premier Sale, while Double Superlative, who is out of Jet Master mare Come Fly With Me, fetched R375,000 at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale.

An indication of his unfashionable status is that Twice Over covered only nine mares in 2025, having covered only 27 in 2024, although he is now 21 years old.

He did not have a single horse at last year’s National Yearling Sale, but he does have eight at the Race Coast Sales Premier Yearling Sale next month and three of them are on the prestigious Day One of the Sale.

See It Again was from the same male crop as the much celebrated Charles Dickens and his record against him was actually 2-2. He beat him in a major shock in their first meeting in the Cape Derby, romping home by 1,25 lengths at 50/1 odds with the 1/5 shot Charles Dickens in second place.

Charles Dickens reversed placings in the Gr 2 WSB Guineas, beating second-placed See It Again by two lengths. See It Again later won the Gr 2 Green Point Stakes at odds of 11/2 with 5/10 shot Charles Dickens beaten 2,15 lengths into third.

However, Charles Dickens (Trippi) then had his finest hour in the L’Ormarins King’s Plate, beating runner up See It Again by 2,75 lengths.

Another stalwart from that male crop is Dave The King (Global View), a three-time Gr 1 winner who was the Equus Horse Of The Year in the 2023/2024 season and he has won a Gr 2 this season.

Cousin Casey (Vercingetorix) is another Gr 1-winning champion from the crop and he is now standing at stud. Gimme A Prince (Gimmethegreenlight) is a three-time Gr 1 winner from the crop and was an Equus Champion Sprinter.

Royal Victory (Pathfork) is a twice Gr 1 winner from the crop.

Gladatorian and Atticus Finch are Gr 1 winners from the crop who are still prominent.

In fact a lot of this crop are still performing at good class as six-year-olds and they include the like of I Am Giant, Cafe Culture, Mercantour, Mover And Shaker, Zatara Magic, Laguna Verde, Quantum Theory, Royal Aussie and others.

David Thiselton

The 2026 WSB Cape Town Met day will always be remembered for events unfolding like a fairytale with the central characters being Andrew Fortune, Justin Snaith, Nick Jonsson, Aldo Domeyer and Gaynor Rupert’s Drakenstein Stud.

The bare facts were the six-year-old Drakenstein Stud-bred Twice Over gelding See It Again being backed into 5/2 favourite and running out a 0,75 length winner in his third attempt at Cape Town’s biggest race.

The win gave both trainer Justin Snaith and owner Nick Jonsson a fourth successive victory in the Gr 1 WFA 2000m event and, incredibly, they have done it with four different horses.

The four were Jet Dark, Double Superlative, Eight On Eighteen and See It Again.

Of those only Double Superlative was not bred by Drakenstein Stud.

Mike Bass won the Met four years in succession between 2007-2010 but only did it with two horses.

Multiple successive wins of Gr 1 races are rare, but do happen around the world to trainers and jockeys. However, it is unheard of for an individual owner to do it simply due to the numerical odds involved. To put it into perspective Snaith’s charges have collectively had 556 runs this season, while Jonsson’s have had exactly 100 runs.

See It Again’s victory gave 58-year-old Andrew Fortune a first ever win of one of South Africa racing’s three “majors”, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, the WSB Met and the Betway Summer Cup.

His son Aldo Domeyer was on one of the biggest outsiders in the race, the Snaith-trained Regal Counsel, and he finished second.

It is not known whether this was the first ever father-son participation as jockeys in the big race, but it was certainly the Met’s first father-son exacta.

That exacta came 45 minutes after Andrew and Aldo had finished first and second in the only other Gr 1 race of the day, the Maine Chance Farms Majorca Stakes over 1600m with the Snaith-trained Double Grand Slam and the Candice Bass-trained Rainbow Lorikeet.

In the Met winner’s enclosure, Fortune brought many to tears when going down on his knees and lifting his hands to the heavens before thanking God.

He had just put the cherry on one of the finest sporting comebacks in history and it followed his even greater comeback as a human-being.

The talented Fortune fought back from being virtually down and out through drug addiction about 19 years ago to be crowned champion jockey in the 2008/2009 season and what made that feat even more incredible was he was a heavyweight jockey.

Fortune retired from the saddle in 2017 with many highlights to look back on, although the absence of a win in any of South African racing’s three “majors” was glaring.

A few years later his weight had ballooned to 90kg.

His position on a thoroughbred farm in Australia was quite physical and he lost plenty of weight, but he was still scoffed at by some when talking of a comeback to the saddle.

The process of regaining his license was a long one and he had almost given up and was going to fly back to his family in Australia when it finally came through, allowing him to resume race-riding on March 1, 2025.

Fortune has a nutrition regime which he does not call dieting, but rather “fasting”, and having battled with weight throughout his career he now, incredibly, rides at 53,5kg and has revealed he has a frightening amount of energy.

He accumulated a lot of suspension time in his first few months back in race-riding, but he did land the Gr 2 Golden Horse Sprint on Tenango and then won the Gr 1 Ridgemont Garden Province on Double Grand Slam.

However, since putting his suspensions behind him he has bounced back to his best and it is unlikely he has ever ridden as well in his career as he has in the last month or two.

It is a thing of beauty to watch horses settling in his sublime hands and then finding extra with minimal use of the whip and, ever the showman, he invariably entertains by standing up in the saddle and pointing to the crowd before he has crossed the line.

His legendary interviews are full of humour, but they are sometimes not for the faint-hearted, although on Saturday even the biggest prude would have forgiven him a couple of swear words.

Fortune won four races in all on Saturday, three of them for Snaith, including the two Gr 1s.

Snaith had five wins in all, including the Gr 3 New Turf Carriers Western Cape Stayers over 2800m.

See It Again had won the Gr 1 Splashout Cape Derby and the Gr 1 Daily News 2000 for Summerveld trainer Michael Roberts as a three-year-old and went close in the July that season.

He had knocked hard for more Gr 1s, but this season was under a cloud as he refused to load in his first two starts at Hollywoodbets Greyville and this scuppered the plan to run him in the Summer Cup.

He was still running under Roberts’ name when charging home for a close third in the Gr 2 Ridgemont Green Point Stakes over 1600m at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on December 13 after losing a couple of lengths at the start. That was his first race under Fortune.

However, he has been at the Snaith yard since early November and his starting stall issues have been worked on by renowned ‘horse whisperer’ Malan Du Toit.

Jonsson put him in Snaith’s name at the end of December and in his first start for the champion trainer he came flying from well back in the field for a narrow third in the Gr 1 WFA L’Ormarins King’s Plate over 1600m.

But Fortune was supremely confident of winning the Met. From a tough draw of ten of eleven See It Again was caught three wide in the running, but he had cover behind Garrix and was settled.

He produced his usual turn of foot in the straight before wearing down the gallant Legal Counsel to win easily with Fortune saluting the grandstand.

The Real Prince ran on from last for third with Okavango and Native Ruler next best.