Choosing Between Two

(MON) January 26th, 2026

8:46 p.m. Let the past be past as time won't wait. That rings a bell. There was a song called "Time Waits for No One" by Rage.

This week we're having Silkroad Stakes, a sprint step race for Takamatsu-no Miya Kinen in March at Kyoto and Negishi Stakes, a dirt 7-furlong step race for February Stakes at Tokyo. Nakayama races will be gone until March when the step races for the classics begin, too bad.

And again, I'm having a hard time choosing between the two races. Track bias giving advantage to trailers should be appearing on Kyoto turf by now but then, Silkroad Stakes is using the inner course with tight corners, which normally benefits inner post starters and front runners. On the other hand, the level of dirt grade races aren't as high as they used to be thanks to the foreign dirt G1 races.

The End

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