FROM THE SPORTING POST, FEBRUARY 2026:
Last Saturday, when Justin Snaith’s See It Again (Twice Over) strode to the start with purpose and won the WSB Cape Town Met with authority, the performance carried the fingerprints of a man who rarely seeks the spotlight.
Horse behaviour consultant Malan du Toit was not responsible for specific exercise programmes, feed and heart rate monitoring, rather with understanding a horse that had lost his earlier composure, and teaching him how to cope again.
Malan had broken in See It Again as a yearling back in 2020, a task completed routinely and professionally.
In December last year, he found himself working with the gelding again, this time at his most vulnerable. What followed was not a quick fix or a gimmick, but a painstaking return to first principles.
See It Again first crossed Malan’s path at Ridgemont Highlands, where owner Nic Jonsson had his yearlings stabled at the time.
Here called: “See It Again was one of many yearlings I’d worked with in 2020. I remember him as a nice, well-behaved young horse with a good attitude. Over the years, however, he picked up some bad habits. While he never lost his gentle demeanour in the stable yard, his behaviour at the starting gates became uncontrollable.”
See It Again as a yearling | Malan Du Toit
Malan explained that See It Again’s original trainer, Michael Roberts, sought his assistance in November 2025, after the gelding had twice refused to load for engagements in October and early November. Those incidents effectively derailed Roberts’ plans to campaign him in the Betway Summer Cup.
“I wasn’t able to help at the time because I was fully booked and about to go on vacation,” said Malan. “More importantly, I knew that a quick crash course ahead of the Summer Cup would not have been sufficient to address See It Again’s issues.”
In the weeks that followed, See It Again was transferred to Justin Snaith’s yard at Philippi, Cape Town, and Malan was available when Snaith soon made a similar request.