"Who will become this year's strongest three-year-old miler? The pinnacle of mile racing for three-year-olds, the NHK Mile Cup, is about to begin."
"All eighteen racehorses have successfully entered the starting stalls."
17th NHK Mile Cup Turf, left-handed, 1,600 m Weather: cloudy Turf: firm Post time: 15:40
"And they're off!"
At the call, seventeen horses burst out in an instant.
"Number five, Mikki Isle, and number seventeen, Alfrey, have broken well."
"Number fifteen was a little slow out of the gate."
After breaking from the gate, Koichi immediately urged his mount forward and angled toward the inside.
He still wasn't very familiar with his partner, but he could clearly feel that the horse had enough early speed. His next task, naturally, was to reshape the entire field.
The favorite, Mikki Isle, had the smoothest start, able to charge straight ahead along the rail.
In the opening instant, Mikki Isle had already secured an advantage.
One-Way Passage also began to pick up speed slightly. Yuichi Fukunaga certainly remembered what the Trainer had told him.
If the start went well, he should follow Koichi Sasaki's pace as closely as possible.
Over 1,600 meters, a Jockey had very little time to think, so he had to react immediately. Yasuo Iwata also wanted to fill one of those advantageous positions.
He was naturally seething today, but as a Jockey, he had to defeat his opponent on the track.
There's room.
Although Alfrey had quickly moved up from the outside, the horse hadn't tucked in directly behind the leader.
As a Jockey, Yasuo Iwata naturally wanted that favorable position.
But when he charged up, he found One-Way Passage coming up beside him as well, pinning his mount against the rail.
Another horse had even appeared ahead of him.
Number eighteen, starting from the