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(TUE) April 23rd, 2024

8:13 p.m. Let's move on to Tennosho (spring), now checking the results of the past ten years. Note that the race was held at Hanshin in years 2021 and 2022, due to the renewal of Kyoto.

It's clear that horses finishing in the top three in Tennosho had also performed predominantly well in their previous step races. To be precise, no horse has done well in Tennosho finishing lower than 6th place in their previous races, except for a few. In fact, there were only two horses that finished below 6th place, Cheval Grand (13th place) and Curren Mirotic (6th place).

What they share in common is that they were both Heart's Cry descendants and that they had already performed well in Tennosho (spring) before. Curren Mirotic had been the third place winner in the year before, while Cheval Grand had finished in the top three 2 years in a row before he came back from 13th place in his step race, Osakahai.

In other words, they were not only repeaters but almost "regulars" of this characteristic marathon race called Tennosho (spring).

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