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Not Bad

(THU) January 22nd, 2026

9:00 p.m. The entry has been closed for the weekend and it looks like AJCC will be run with 16 horses this year. Great. There were 18 horses runnning last year, which was the first in a while, so I wished we'd have a full-field race again. 16 is not bad in that sense.

Apart from the fresh 4-year-olds, I shall pay attention to Chuck Nate as well as Matenro. Since these two horses have already proven they the requirements of AJCC, they could perform well in case they drew the posts they did before. AJCC is generally not friendly to repeaters, but still it will be better to stay on alert, I say.

Anyway, let's wait for the barrier draw tomorrow.

The End

Caterpillar

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