2025 Cape Town Met Odds - Oriental Charm tops Kenilworth betting

Jon Vine

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Last updated: 11 Jan 2025

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Latest odds and betting for the 2025 Cape Town Met
This Grade One takes place at Kenilworth on Saturday 25th January
Oriental Charm is the 3/1 favourite with Hollywoodbets

Double Superlative ridden by Daniel Muscutt wins the Cape Town Met horse race event at Kenilworth. (Getty)

The second leg of South Africa's triple crown takes place at the end of January, as a classy field gathers at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth for the 2025 Cape Town Met.

Here's a look through the current Cape Town Met betting and a rundown of the most likely runners.

2025 Cape Town Met Odds

Name	Odds
Oriental Charm	3/1
Eight On Eighteen	4/1
See It Again	4/1
Green With Envy	5/1
Red Palace	12/1
Rascallion	12/1
Bar	16/1

2024 Cape Town Met Entries

Leading the way in the betting we find 2024 Durban July winner, Oriental Charm. Brett Crawford's star made a winning return in the Green Point Stakes in December, but will have to bounce back after a seventh-place finish behind One Stripe in the recent L'Ormarins King's Plate.

Multiple Grade One winner, See It Again is also on the recovery mission, having finished last of the 13 runners in the King's Plate. Green With Envy was well beaten as the favourite in the Durban July and finished last on his reappearance in the Green Point.

Eight On Eighteen has placed in both the Punters Cup and the Cape Guineas behind One Stripe, who boosted that form considerably by landing the King's Plate. Red Palace has also been backed for the Cape Met in recent weeks, having finished a close second to Double Grand Slam in the Grade One Cartier Paddock Stakes.

Seven-year-old Rascallion has been resurgent in recent weeks, winning Graded races on his last two starts. Champions Cup and Gold Challenge winner, Dave The King can also be backed at around 16/1 with Hollywoodbets.

Other potential runners in this lucrative contest include regular Grade One performers Future Swing and Royal Aussie, Justin Snaith's progressive four-year-old Magic Verse, and surprise King's Plate runner-up, Montien.