Punters should hold their horses in wide-open Met

The WSB Met is scheduled for January 28.

Jet Dark and Kommetdieding are the favourites for the grade 1 race. The price of a number of horses could shorten in the run-up to the race, notably Al Muthana, Make It Snappy and Rascallion. Bookmakers will try to lure punters with special offers on the fancied contenders. Komet died has failed to win the Grade 1 Met for seven races since his previous victory.

Punters should hold their horses in wide-open Met. Bookmakers will try to lure punters with special offers on the fancied contenders. Al Muthana’s starting price was 80-1 but the tote payout was only R47.

John Koster is hoping Gavin Lerena and Kommetdieding will partner to a second Met win.

Jet Dark added R190,000 to his bankroll on Saturday. Rascallion has been given time to recover from injury and is trained by a master, Vaughan Marshall. Crawford camp's decision to run Paddock Stakes winner Make It Snappy is an interesting call. Al Muthana won the Queen’s Plate with Wolf Power in 1984 and went on to take the J&B Met.

Hold My Hand ran third in the Paddock Stakes. Count Casey is 7-1 favourite for the Met. Sparkling Water's fifth in Paddock is seen as a positive performance by trainer Mike de Kock. Count is now 9-2.