Wow! What a race!!
And what a surprising result!!!
Yes, No.9 Orfevre was the favorite and did win,
but the 2nd and 3rd placed horses No.5 Eishin Flash and No.7 To The Glory were big surprises!!!
But it was an amazing race to watch a long 2,500 meters taking 2minutes 36secconds to run,
it truely was a thrilling way to spend Christmas Day!
And I think the 100,000 people who were at Nakayama Racecourse would agree with me.

WINS Shiodome
At WINS Shiodome, off-track betting facility located in Shiodome area

At WINS Shiodome
We stopped by at WINS to place our bets for the Arima Kinen!

Wish Me Luck

Here’s official result of the 56th running of the ARIMA KINEN at Nakayama Racecourse.
No.1 Orfevre (Horse No.9)
No.2 Tosen Jordan (Horse No.5)
No.3 To the Glory (Horse No.7)

PAYOUT:
WIN 9: 220yen
EXACTA 9→5: 3,650yen
TRIFECTA 9→5→7: 78,260yen

For Complete Result: http://japanracing.jp/en/information/jra-card-result.html

Xmas present for you!
Christmas present from JRA!! 2 lucky listeners will win a set of…
-Mop Cleaner-Book Cover-Stationary Clip
ALL featuring JRA’s official character, “Turfy’s”illustration!
To win, e-mail horse@interfm.jp
by midnight, December 25th (Sun,)

D-Jockey, Guy Perryman
I’d like to say a big THANK YOU to you for listening to our program, and reading our blog!
And of course a big THANK YOU to our friends at JRA who made all of this exciting racing possible!!
I’m looking forward to experiencing more horseracing in 2012!!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all the best wishes for the New Year.

Guy Perryman

JRA website (Available in English, French, Chinese, Korean): japanracing.jp