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The Justin Snaith-trained and Nick Jonsson and Johann Rupert-owned Eight On Eighteen won Saturday’s WSB Met, thus becoming only the fifth three-year-old to win Cape Town’s flagship race since the war, following Feltos (1945), Horse Chestnut (1999), Badger’s Coast (2000) and Oh Susanna (2018).

Snaith has trained the last three Met winners and all three of them, Jet Dark, Double Superlative and Eight On Eighteen, have run in Jonsson’s colours.

Richard Fourie has been aboard two of them, Jet Dark and Eight On Eighteen.

When One Stripe won the L’Ormarins King’s Plate it seemed the obvious move to run Eight On Eighteen in the WSB Met, because he had finished just 1,25 lengths behind the former in the Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas.

Eight On Eighteen was duly entered and the money poured on and proved to be spot on as Eight On Eighteen’s late run saw him beating Oriental Charm by half-a-length with Montien a 0,90 length third followed by See It Again (beaten 1,10 lengths) and (Rascallion beaten 1,20 lengths).

The Sporting Post wrote the following report on the race:

CLICK HERE TO READ REPORT ON WSB MET