TRACKS LEADING TO TRACKS
Surrounding Tokyo there's a rail line called the JR Musashino Line that must be the ultimate train ride for Keibaholics. It starts close to Minami-Funabashi, which is where the NAR Funabashi track is located, and literally within a few minutes of that station is Funabashi-Hoten, which is the stop for the Nakayama (JRA) racecourse.

If you stay on the train long enough, the Minami-Urawa station is the getting off point for the NAR Urawa track, and completing the circular tour of the Kanto area at the Fuchu-Honmachi station brings you outside the JRA Tokyo course. I'm really tempted to go to Urawa tomorrow to see Takashi Mizuno's comeback, but I really have to do some work, otherwise a certain lady in England is going to give me her 'Stern Editor' look! So from Chiba rather than Saitama: "Mizuno-san - I hope all goes well for you..."