Realized Once Gain

(FRI) December 26th, 2025

9:55 p.m. Calling Hopeful Stakes after cleaning, not the year-end cleaning but the usual one as Mr. N-jima will be coming again for Arima Kinen.

I realized once again how hard it was to call this race. What with all the horses with such short careers, it's hard to assume under what conditions each horse would perform its best. Of course, I've been careful to choose horses with fast threee furlongs time as I said that myself, but that wasn't much help after all.

Have done my best to narrow down the candidates to six, Justin Vista, Lovcen, Badrinath, Forte Angelo, Anduril, and Shonan Gulf. Lovcen, for safe keeping in case he ran away smoothly. Forte Angelo, I might give up as I'm suspicious about his performance. My hope is on Badrinath. Perhaps I could buy win and show for Badriath, and then add some trios with small coins? It's a 2-year-olds' race, anyway.

The End

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