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(THU) October 9th, 2025

9:13 p.m. Some forecasts are predicting rain for Saturday, due to the approaching typhoon stimulating the rain front. There is a chance that the track gets soft on Sunday.

If the turf turns out to be soft, you might as well consider outer post starters since horses with two digit numbers tend to do well when the track is soft unless they are front runners. In other words, inner post starters generally perform better when the turf is dry.

From a personal point of view, horses with high achievements on courses with long straights such as Tokyo, Kyoto, or Niigata are likely to perform well in Fuchu Hinba. Chukyo mile has a similar course layout to Tokyo 1800m, so perhaps that's the reason why horses running in Sekiya Kinen are also performing well.

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Pocketchange
Pocketchange - How to charge your left-over Yen to digital money

If you are ready to leave Japan but have your pocket heavy with leftover Japanese Yen, why not empty your pockets and feel light with Pocketchange?

Holidays

Holidays of October

  • October 13th (MON)
  • Sports Day

Food Catalog

Cream Anmitsu
Cream Anmitsu

Fed up with the heat? Here's a nice cold Japanse-style sweets to cheer you up! Cream Anmitsu is a delux version of Anmitsu, Kanten(Japanese gelatine) jelly and fruits with ice cream topping and Kuromitsu caramel sauce poured over it. And what's great, it's low calorie!

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Manned flight by oxyride dry-cell batteries project

The Tokyo Institute of Technology in cooperation with Panasonic, has led the project 'Manned Flight by Oxyride Dry-cell Battery' into the world's first success. On July 16th this year (2006), they made success in a trial of manned flight using commercially available oxyride batteries, in a project that they had been bringing forward together.