See It Again wins comfortably on Saturday at Hollywoodbets Greyville (Candiese Lenferna Photography).
Michael Roberts was happy with See It Again’s reapearance on Saturday when cruising to a comfortable win over 1600m in wet conditions on the Hollywoodbets Greyville turf.
The 131 merit-rated superstar carried 62kg in the Pinnacle Stakes event and beat the useful Cape Eagle, to whom he gave 4kg, by a cosy 1,10 lengths while the third-placed horse Queue Wing was beaten 5,20 lengths.
Michael said, “I was a bit stressed because of the conditions, but he pulled up well and ate up, he’s looking a million dollars. I never thought he would mind the heavy going. I was more concerned about him having a hard race first time back. He has run in the wet before at Scottsville. As it turned out Piere (Strydom) said he had so much left in the tank, he was just going through the motions with the horse. Piere was very complimentary. He thinks the horse has improved a lot … well I know he has improved since last season. He has filled out a helluva lot.”
He will be departing for Cape Town in a few days time.
Michael said, “I just want to give him a week or ten days to get over the race, then he will be on his way, and then hopefully we will go for the (WSB ) Green Point, the (L’Ormarins) King’s Plate and then the (WSB ) Met.”
He will once again be staying with Paddy Kruyer, whom Michael enjoys a good working relationship with.
Michael will be sending another useful horse in the yard, Sun Blushed (The United States), to run in the R500,000 WSB Grand Heritage over 1475m at the Vaal on December 9.
Meanwhile, his stable jockey Rachel Venniker has been working with the promising three-year-old Ermelo (Rabada), who has been in the yard for three weeks, and is making progress with his starting stall issues.
Michael concluded by saying it is “exciting times” for the yard.
