Jack Milner
Three-year-old Eight On Eighteen, perfectly handled by jockey Richard Fourie, came from well off the pace to win the Grade 1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met over 2000m at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.
In doing, he denied Oriental Charm the opportunity of pulling off a Hollywoodbets Durban July and Cape Met double.
Eight On Eighteen, having only his seventh start, showed his inexperience, but Fourie managed to get him going down the inside and slip through a narrow gap to win by 0.50 lengths.
The victory gave both trainer Justin Saith and owner Nic Jonsson their third successive win in this R5-million race over 2000m.
Oriental Charm tried to make all and once in the straight JP van der Merwe went to the outside fence and looked to be travelling well enough to win until Eight On Eighteen came bounding through long the inside rail.
After that they were all tightly bunched but third place went to Montien, who showed his second-placed run behind One Stripe in the L’Ormarins King’s Plate was no fluke, and after a lengthy perusal of the photofinish picture, fourth place went to See It Again.
Interestingly, there was just 2.65 lengths separating the first nine horses past the post.
There was continuous betting support for Eight On Eighteen who went off at 18-10 while Oriental Charm started at 8-1.
It was a good meeting for Snaith Racing as they came away with six winners on the 12-race card although perhaps did not always win with their expected runners.
HOW THEY FINISHED in the WSB Cape Town Met
1 10 EIGHT ON EIGHTEEN 3 C 9 54.0 0.00 123.68 115 A 505 7/2 18/10 Justin Snaith R Fourie
2 3 ORIENTAL CHARM 4 C 3 59.5 0.50 123.77 125 A 506 33/10 8/1 B/J Crawford JP v'd Merwe
3 15 MONTIEN 5 G 14 60.0 0.90 123.84 129 A 576 20/1 20/1 Piet Botha C Orffer
4 12 SEE IT AGAIN 5 G 11 60.0 1.10 123.88 131 A 476 5/1 17/2 Michael Roberts P Strydom
5 16 RASCALLION 7 G 15 60.0 1.20 123.89 122 A B 530 14/1 25/2 Vaughan Marshall S Veale
6 1 RED PALACE 4 F 1 57.0 1.25 123.90 119 A 490 25/2 8/1 Dean Kannemeyer G Lerena
7 8 PACAYA 6 G 8 60.0 1.75 123.99 116 A 524 66/1 40/1 Justin Snaith R A Venniker
8 4 FUTURE SWING 5 G 4 60.0 2.15 124.06 114 A 476 20/1 17/2 Justin Snaith G van Niekerk
9 14 MASTER REDOUTE 6 G 13 60.0 2.65 124.15 117 A B T 502 66/1 100/1 Andre Nel S Moodley
10 5 ATTICUS FINCH 5 G 5 60.0 3.15 124.24 121 A T 469 25/1 33/1 Alec Laird R Danielson
11 7 ROYAL AUSSIE 5 G 7 60.0 4.90 124.56 124 A 523 20/1 33/1 Justin Snaith K Matsunyane
12 17 ZAPATILLAS 6 G 16 60.0 5.90 124.73 119 A C 491 66/1 66/1 B/J Crawford L Mxothwa
13 13 BARATHEON 6 G 12 60.0 6.20 124.79 106 A 499 50/1 125/1 Piet Botha T Godden
14 11 MAGIC VERSE 4 G 10 59.5 6.30 124.81 114 A 475 20/1 25/2 Justin Snaith A Domeyer
15 6 LITIGATION 6 G 6 60.0 12.30 125.88 113 A C T 500 33/1 33/1 Sean Tarry M Yeni
16 2 AL MUTHANA (AUS) 7 G 2 60.0 12.50 125.91 116 A 479 75/1 125/1 Ricky Maingard G Wright
Scr 9 GREEN WITH ENVY 4 C 9 59.5 0.00 123.68 127 A 0 5/1 5/1 Dean Kannemeyer C Zackey
This article was originally published on TAB and is reposted here with permission.
