Eight On Eighteen is looking a picture after a deserved holiday (Picture Supplied)
Eight On Eighteen is back in training after a deserved holiday.
Jonathan Snaith said, “Eight on Eighteen returns from his well-deserved rest looking better than ever. He has strengthened, matured, and appears to have taken another step forward.
This season, his campaign will be built around the Gr1 L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the Gr1 Cape Met – both races are rich in history and renowned as stallion-makers.
His connections will give him a single prep run ahead of the King’s Plate, with the exact race still to be confirmed.”
The Equus Horse Of The Year won three Gr 1 races as a three-year-old, the WSB Met, the Splashout Cape Derby and the Daily News 2000, all over 2000m.
He failed by 0,25 lengths to become the eighth horse to win both the Met and the Hollywoodbets Durban July and he would have been the first to have completed that double as a three-year-old.
He will be out to exact revenge on his July conqueror The Real Prince in the prestigious weight for age races, the L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the WSB Met, although over his right distance of 2000m in the Met it shouldn’t be a contest on paper because he had to give the year older The Real Prince half-a-kilogram in the July, meaning he faced him on 2,5kg worse than weight for age.
Race fans will be looking forward to his campaign as he has the potential to become an all time superstar.
