One of South Africa's prize horse racing events, The Sun Met is considered the pinnacle of horse racing in SA along with the Durban July.
Worth one of the biggest stakes on the calendar, The Sun Met is attended by all the big names of the industry and it's Cape Town's biggest event.
It's also Africa's richest raceday combined across the nine-race card at Kenilworth Racecourse in January each year.
Bookmakers always offer a wide-open market due to the popularity of the Cape Town race and we have the best The Met betting tips available when the field is released.
The Met Free Bets
Bookmakers often have free bets on offer for the The Sun Met, which is a popular thoroughbred race at Kenilworth in South Africa.
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You can watch a live stream of the The Sun Met at global bookmakers like bet365. They show most big South African races to an international audience and all you need is an account and a bet on the race.
The Sun Met Day Feature Races
It's the richest card on the African continent with four races worth R1,000,000 or more.
That includes the R5,000,000 Sun Met, which headlines the card.
R5,000,000 The Sun Met celebrated with G.H. MUMM 2000m Grade 1
R1,000,000 Betting World Cape Flying Championship 1000m Grade 1
The Met was first run in 1883, almost a century after the first locally bred thoroughbred foal wobbled to its feet and grew to elegant and imposing maturity in the shadows of the craggy mountain range.
In that first Met, run as the Metropolitan Mile, Sir Hercules proved the fleetest in a small field of seven.
In the next eight decades the race grew in stature, sometimes being run as many as five times a year.
But the handicap conditions and large fields often resulted in the best equines in the land staying at home, rather than competing in a race that had become notoriously rough and prone to upset results.
Other memorable winners of the race include Foveros and Wolf Power, while impressive and popular Horse Chestnut carried the bright yellow-and-red sash after winning by a street.
The mighty Pocket Power won the race three years running, from 2007 to 2009.
In 2016 the Investec Cape Derby and the Klawervlei Majorca Stakes were brought forward a week as the supporting features to the first CTS Million Dollar and the Grade 1 sprint formerly run a week before the Met replaced them on the Met Day programme.
The following year J&B pulled out as a sponsor and Sun International stepped into the void, raising the stake to R5 million, which made it the richest race in South Africa.
The CTS Million was split into two races worth $500,000 each and the Investec Cape Derby and Klawervlei Majorca Stakes were returned to Met Day.
The Sun Met Past Winners
Year
Winner
2021
Rainbow Bridge
2020
One World
2019
Rainbow Bridge
2018
Oh Susanna
2017
Whiskey Baron
2016
Smart Call
2015
Futura
2014
Hill Forty Four
2013
Martial Eagle
2012
Igugu
2011
Past Master
2010
River Jetez
2009
Pocket Power
2008
Pocket Power
2007
Pocket Power
2006
Zebra Crossing
2005
Alastor
2004
Yard-Arm
2003
Angus
2002
Polo Classic
2001
Bunter Barlow
2000
Badger's Coast
Kenilworth Track Info
New Course: 2800m in circumference with 600m run-in.
Old Course: 2700m with 450m run-in.
Races up to 1200m testing straight course (1200m races are occasionally run round the turn, starting on the new course and ending on the old course); beyond 1200m anti-clockwise round turn.
Low-numbers draws slightly preferred all races. Wet going can impact on draw in races down the straight.
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