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The Hard Part

(WED) July 2nd, 2025

9:39 p.m. Trying to figure out the patterns of high-performing three-year-olds.

Basically, the three-year-olds should be advantaged since Kita-kyushu Kinen could be their first grade race racing against older horses, which means they could fully use the benefit of their freshness. However, some of the challengers in the past have benn bounced of the high wall of a G3 race mixed with older horses. These seem to be the horses that had already been burnt out before running Kita-kyushu Kinen.

The hard part it seems, is where to draw the line between a three-year-old that still have energy to fight against stronger competitors in tougher conditions and a three-year-old that has already reached its prime.

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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 July

  • July 21st (MON)
  • Marine 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.