More Registered?

(THU) April 3rd, 2025

8:17 p.m. The entry has been closed for this weekend's Osaka-hai and it will be a 15-horse race. I thought there were more registered?

Okay, so King's Palace and Babbitt scratched off, huh? I can understand King's Palace. Kinko-sho was quite a tough race, the 6-year-old might have to pay the price for finishig in third place.

But I wish Babbitt would have stayed for two reasons. One, because if the two front runners Babbitt and Desierto drew barriers wide apart from each other, there might have ben a chance for this year's Osaka-hai to run at a tight pace. The second reason is because if Babbitt didn't scratch off, it would have been a full-field race which is very much welcomed, from my personal point of view. I may be asking too much of Babbitt, though as he's already 8 years old, older than King's Palace.

Now that the only runaway left is Desierto, the possibility of him taking the lead at a tight lap is not high, except for the case when the horse tries to break away as he did in Kinko-sho.

The End

Caterpillar