Head Honcho off to Durban

Head Honcho, who ran the race of his life to take third in the Sun Met, heads for KwaZulu-Natal and the Vodacom Durban July in a week’s time.

Andre Nel said: “He went to the farm in George in the week after the Met and he leaves there for Durban on either the 25 or 26 February.

I calculate that he has improved some 40lb as a five-year-old – and this year I will be prepping him to run in the July rather than to qualify him for it and that will be a lot easier.”

Head Honcho was raised eight points to a revised merit rating of 122 for his Met performance and is an 18-1 chance in the prenomination prices.

Entries for the great race do not normally close until April.

Met winner Rainbow Bridge is 5-1 favourite with Buffalo Bill Cody on 13-2 and last year’s winner Do It Again on 15-2.

Other leading prices are 17-2 Hawwaam, 11-1 Doublemint, 18-1 Soqrat, 20-1 Cascapedia.Undercover Agent, fourth in the Met, is a 25-1 chance but punt-ers should hold fire because at the moment the race is not on his agenda.

“He will go Drill Hall, Rising Sun Gold Challenge and Champions Cup,” said Brett Craw-ford on Saturday.

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