Last Three Furlongs

(WED) December 10th, 2025

8:55 p.m. Digging further with the step race research.

Perhaps because the outer turf course of Hanshin 1600m where Hanshin JF is annually run slopes downward from the last corner until the heartbreaking hill before the finish line, the race tends to require a fast record for the last three furlongs. Most of the horses finishing above third place in the past 10 years had finished recording either the fastest, second fastest or the third fastest furlong time for te last three furlongs in their previous races.

There were a few exceptions of course, but these were front runners or runaways and the too, had finished with fast furlong records, although they couldn't make it to the top three. In rare cases where the high performers of Hanshin JF didn't finish with fast furlong records in their previous races, they actually had in their former race just before the step race.

What I want to say is that fast records for the last threee furlongs are fairly important in Hanshin JF.

The End

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