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Run For It, who missed the second half of last season through injury, is back in full training and has the Group One J & B Met as his aim.

Trainer Justin Snaith said: "He is doing nicely and he worked really well when we galloped him with Ebony Flyer the other day.

"He was unlucky in last season’s Met (when fourth to Igugu) and he will be aimed at that race again.

"It’s just a question of finding the right races for him in the meantime."

The five-year-old suffered ligament damage in his near-fore knee when working at Randjesfontein in March while preparing for the HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes.

He has been an unlucky horse in top company, his high class efforts including a third to Past Master as a three-year-old in the 2011 Met, a head second to The Apache in that year’s Daily News and a neck second to Solo Traveller in the 2010 Cape Guineas.

* THE rain delayed R600,000 Emerald Cup finally got its moment in the sun at the Vaal last Thursday when Mike de Kock became the first trainer to win the rich G2 sand race on more than one occasion when Meadow Magic took the honours.

Anton Marcus stood in for an absent Anthony Delpech to get the third favourite home by a neck over Beacon Flare with Captain’s Secret a head back in third.