The Michael Roberts-trained superstar See It Again has been doing well at Summerveld and will be heading down to Cape Town at the end of the month.
Roberts said, “We might give him a run before he goes, although we are in two minds about it.”
He said about his targets in Cape Town, “The (WSB ) Green Point and then obviously the (L’Ormarins) King’s Plate and the (WSB Cape Town) Met.”
The Twice Over colt won two Gr 1’s as a three-year-old, the Splash Out Cape Derby and the Gr 1 Daily News 2000.
He beat the superstar Charles Dickens in the former event, so that was likely his best performance. The Met is run over the same course and distance, so will obviously be his chief target.
Owner Nick Jonsson won the Met with Jet Dark last season and there is a fine chance that the same familiar cyclamen (pink), spectrum green crossed sashes, white sleeves and cyclamen cap will cross the line first this season with See It Again underneath them.
Roberts said about See It Again’s current well-being, “Improvement you can only see on a racecourse, but he has matured and filled out a lot. He is looking good and I am very happy with him.”
See It Again progressed tremendously in the second half of last season and clearly had the combination most champions have of ability coupled with a fine temperament. Roberts said last season he was a relatively easy horse to train too.
He is not officially a champion at national level, but almost the entire industry believe he should be one.
His two Gr 1 wins were bolstered by two Gr 1 seconds in the Hollywoodbets Durban July over 2200m and in the Gr 1 HKJC World Pool Champions Cup over 1800m.
In the former race he gave 3,5kg to the year older winner Winchester Mansion and lost by 0,25 lengths, so outperformed the latter by by 5kg to 5,5kg, and in the Champions Cup he lost by only 1,30 length to the Equus Horse of The Year Princess Calla, when giving this five-year-old 1kg, meaning he also outperformed her.
It therefore came as a shock when he was not named Equus Middle Distance Champion, the accolade instead going to Winchester Mansion.
He did pick up two awards at the KZN Racing awards though, the Champion Three-year-old Male and the Champion Middle Distance horse.
He will be in line for the Middle Distance and Older male awards again this season.
He performed well against the Champion Miler Charles Dickens over a mile last season and was unlucky in that race, so, who knows, he could be a threat in the Green Point and the King’s Plate.
He is a candidate for Equus Horse Of The Year too, although the favourite for that occolade would almost certainly be Charles Dickens if they did price up for it.
By David Thiselton, Gold Circle racing
