No Complaints

Yuichi Shibayama guided Time For Love to fifth place at Tokyo-Fuchu a few minutes ago, in a race in which the betting was remarkably accurate - the top six favourites finished comfortably in the first six places, even though the most-favoured pony came in third.

Nothing much now until Pop Label on Wednesday, although Pretty Gully runs in Australia on Friday, and Danielle's Journey should be back in action in Ireland over the next week or so, too. Today's result was about what I expected, but I'm not complaining given that it wasn't worse than I'd reckoned on before the race - some of the recent JRA results have been a lot worse than expected! However, at least one of these three coming up soon should be able to get that 23rd win, and if we're really lucky, 24 or even 25 might be on the cards...

Gloomy Outlook

It's amazing that you can have so many JRA horses, and none of them doing anything except taking funds for extended holidays. Some have picked up injuries (Single Cask), others are simply dossing (the majority of them), and some don't even deserve to be called racehorses, such as War Chronicle, who stops eating at the first sign of work. Add in the usual problem of not enough races, meaning Harmony Fair might do a dirt race - despite hating dirt! - because there's no turf races available for ages, and my attempt at brightening my mood through looking at the Carrot Club reports after several long, hard days at the PC has failed miserably...

PS. Time For Love has suddenly been entered in the 2R at Tokyo on the 23rd - a 1400m turf race, with the same jockey as her last outing. That's all folks until the 26th!

A Real Shame

Poor Phosphorus couldn't get a berth in the gate at Urawa, so won't be able to run this week. Interestingly, True Motion (one of mine at one stage) is in the sixth, though...