Cape Town Met is a five-horse race – or so say the punters

If the betting boards are to be believed, Saturday’s 2,000m WSB Cape Town Met should be divided into two classes – as in sports car racing. There’s Class 1, which is attracting all the wagering attention, and then there’s the others, tootling along some laps adrift.

Five runners – Kommetdieding, Jet Dark, Double Superlative, Linebacker and Marina – are at single-figure odds, while the remaining six stretch out into the frozen wasteland of 90-1.

Those drawing the most money in the past week have been dual Queen’s Plate victor Jet Dark and star filly Marina.

The former, once quoted as long as 5-1, even after his most recent heroics on 8 January, shortened to 7-2 to share favouritism with July champion Kommetdieding – who was second to him in the Queen’s Plate.

Jet Dark’s stable mate Double Superlative, 15-10 joint favourite with Kommetdieding just over a week earlier, had eased slightly to 15-4 as of Tuesday with race sponsor World Sports Betting.

Marina’s odds have been cut in half – from 13-1 to 13-2 – in recent days.

Hoedspruit, who won his Met prep race, the 1800m Premier Stakes, in storming style, is not capturing the popular imagination and has drifted from 10-1 to 15-1, while two-time July winner Do It Again has wafted out from 8-1 to 16-1.

The rest? Two chances, slim and zero – and slim has left the course.

MET BETTING

7-2 Jet Dark, Kommetdieding

15-4 Double Superlative

5-1 Linebacker

13-2 Marina

15-1 Hoedspruit

16-1 Do It Again

50-1 Second Base

70-1 Puerto Manzano

75-1 Cirillo

90-1 Rockin’ Ringo