"Life Is Fun is making a move! Life Is Fun is making a move!"
Out wide, Yuichi Fukunaga immediately asked Life Is Fun to accelerate.
He had considerable faith in Life Is Fun's final kick. After all, this was the closest they had been to Gentildonna.
If they could not catch her early in the home straight, their chances of catching her later would only grow slimmer.
Kenichi Ikezoe also seized the opportunity to surge forward from behind.
Winning would be difficult, but for a horse ranked fifteenth in popularity, a finish near the front would be enough.
He now had only one target in his sights: Koichi, wearing the Sunday Club's racing silks ahead of him.
If they could keep pace with Gentildonna, they would surely earn a respectable result.
Yutaka Take, on the inside, naturally had the same idea.
The only problem was that the horses ahead were clearly tiring, while those behind were closing in. His path was nowhere near as clear as Gentildonna's.
But there was still hope!
"She's coming through! She's coming through! Gentildonna has charged up from the middle of the pack!"
"Right behind her are number fifteen, Verxina, and number eleven, No One but Me!"
The sixteen-hundred-meter race's home straight was not particularly long.
Those three horses launched their sprint from the middle of the Racecourse Track straight toward the front.
Although Life Is Fun also had a powerful final kick, a considerable gap remained ahead. Running on the far outside only made the task harder.
"The final two hundred meters!"
"Numbers ten, fifteen, and eleven are running side by side!"
"Number seventeen, Life Is Fun, is chasing hard on the far outside, but there's no stopping Gentildonna!"
The commentator's voice grew more and more impassioned.
The cheers around the course swelled with