See It Again and Andrew Fortune being led towards the winner’s enclosure (Picture: Wayne Marks)
Victory Is Sweet For See It Again!
Sarah Whitelaw
The running of the 2026 G1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met proved to be a story of redemption.
With winning jockey Andrew Fortune enjoying his first Met success, it was a case of third time lucky for the victorious See It Again.
The latter had finished fourth in the 2024 race before going on to fill the same placing in 2025. Remarkably, on both occasions the Nick Jonsson owned See It Again had finished behind a horse wearing Jonsson’s silks!
See It Again’s Met triumph owed plenty to the skill of renowned equine behaviourist Malan Du Toit, whose remedial help and reschooling had assisted the gelding in overcoming his aversion to the starting stalls.
This year’s World Sports Betting Cape Town Met also once again underlined the quality of horse that Klawervlei Stud’s resident sire Twice Over is capable of siring.
See It Again, whose previous G1 triumphs came in the 2023 G1 SplashOut Cape Derby and 2023 G1 Daily News 2000, is the second G1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met winner in three years for Twice Over, with the latter also responsible for Double Superlative. The latter vanquished See It Again into fourth place when he won the Met in 2024.
To date, Twice Over has been responsible for four G1 winners with this tally made up of the aforementioned pair of Double Superlative (also victorious in the 2021 G1 Cape Guineas) and See It Again, as well as 2017 G1 Gold Medallion winner Sand And Sea and Do It Again.
The latter, whose half-sister Supreme Vision is the dam of See It Again, was a five time Equus Award winner with Do It Again crowned South African Horse Of The Year in 2018-2019. The remarkable Do It Again, who contested the Met on five occasions and the July on six occasions, earned more than R9.724 million in a career which saw Do It Again win all of the 2018 G1 Vodacom Durban July, 2019 G1 Vodacom Durban July, 2019 G1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and 2019 G1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge.
Do It Again and See It Again clearly inherited plenty of their own class and durability from Twice Over.
The latter, who raced from two to seven, contested black type races from three to seven, with Twice Over winning 12 of 33 starts notably nine black type races. This tally included four G1 victories including back to back triumphs in the G1 Emirate Airlines Champion Stakes. The Champion Stakes is one of the world’s great contests, with its numerous outstanding winners including Frankel, Brigadier Gerard, Sceptre, Pretty Polly, Petite Etoile, Sir Ivor and Pebbles.
Twice Over’s fifth dam Kerala, Broodmare Of The Year in the USA in 1967, produced legendary racehorse and influential stallion Damascus. The latter, Horse Of The Year in the USA in 1967, won 21 of his 32 starts including both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes of 1967. Damascus also scored a 22 length win in the Travers Stakes and landed the Woodward Stakes by ten lengths.
Twice Over, whose daughter Lavender Bay ran second in the G3 World Sports Betting Summer Fling Stakes on World Sports Betting Cape Town Met day, has also proved to be a very versatile stallion.
The son of Observatory has sired stakes winners over a range of distances, with his offspring including such graded stakes winning sprinters as Smorgasbord and Taikonaut as well as G2 Track And Ball Oaks winner Moon In June and 2019 G3 eLan Gold Cup third place getter Doublemint.
