After the bitter disappointment of Vertice's jog home and a fall from 'Jazz' in Ireland, at least Kealoha delivered the goods at Funabashi with his fourth win from six runs tonight (he was second and third in the other two outings), giving me my 64th win in the process. The finish was a lot tighter than I would have liked, and indeed I thought Masashige Honda may have left it too late to recover from the awful start at one point, but winning by a neck is better than coming second, or much further down the order as is far too often the case with the Japanese stuff. Anyway, well done Mar-kun...
PS. Looking at the replay, Mar-kun didn't seem too worried, as he only cracked the whip coming off the last corner and once on the finishing straight. Kealoha will have to get out of the gate a lot sharper in future, though, if his winning ways are to continue.
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