Suspicious Eyes

(WED) June 18th, 2025

8:54 p.m. Was there a green belt? I came across someone's blog saying that there's been a relatively well-conditioned belt of turf appearing along the rail at Hanshin last week. The blog said that runaways performed well on the day of Takaraduka Kinen taking advantage of this so-called green belt, while the trailers trying to take over from the outside were disadvantaged.

Green belts usually appear at the opening of each racing course when the turf has fully recuperated after the previous races. Hanshin races have just started from the 7th of June, so there's no surprise if there actually was a green belt, though I personally think the runaways were doing well because of the soft track condition, rather than the track bias. If the track had been biased, there should have been more wins earned by horses taking the lead on the opening week.

It's important to have suspicious eyes, though.

The End

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