Keep My Promise

(TUE) December 23rd, 2025

10:04 p.m. An unexpected job popped up from nowhere. It kept me working all afternoon until a little before nine. So as you can easily guess, I'm cross because I not only wasn't able to finish what I was planning to do today, but have to rearrange my schedule for the rest of the week, humph.

Nevertheless, I promised to write more info about Hopeful Stakes yesterday as long as I was still alive after work and, since I'm breathing, I will keep my promise.

The top three finishers of Hopeful Stakes in the past 10 years all had finished above third place in their previous races except for two horses, Sunrise Zipangu and Dura Erede. What they share in common are that they'd both run in dirt races two races before Hopeful Stakes, either won or finished second in those races, which were both run on wet track condition. It could be said that only the horses that performed well on wet condition can keep up with the speed on turf, if they have been running dirt races.

The End

Caterpillar