I have seen Japan Derby training exhibition at the Kurito Training Center training racehorses



The JRA is carrying out a tour consisting of a set of training and stable tour before the big race, but since the acquaintance was elected to '

Japan Derby Training Open & Shirai Akira Shoya Tour ', it will follow It has become. Anyone in Hokkaido can visit the ranch if it is in summer Hokkaido (if you apply in advance), but there is almost no opportunity to see the training scenes and stables of active race horses in raw. I was asked to show carefully what kind of place the training center is drawing out the speed of racehorses.

Kore is a winning postcard. The magnification of this time is unknown, but it seems that there were more than 400 applicants for 30 persons at the 'The Emperor Award (Spring) Torture Open & Mikio Matsunaga Visit Tour' held in March 2010. .



The Ritto Training Center is located in Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture.


It is easiest to go by car, but this time we are going to change trains and buses. The nearest railway station is Kusatsu Station on the JR Biwako Line (Tokaido Main Line).



From Kusatsu Station, take a

bus bound for Teiman Bus 113 'Kinkatsu Public Hall' . There should be no mistake because the destination display says 'Training Center'. It runs at an interval of 2 per hour.



About 30 minutes to be shaken by the bus.



At the side of the sidewalk, a sign saying 'This road was built with the cooperation of the Japan Central Horse Racing Association Kurito Training Center'. It has become like that.



Here is the entrance to the training center. As Ichiyama is a training center from here, it takes about 15 minutes to walk to the office.




Standing at the entrance is a statue of

Shinzan .



It seems to be full size, but I think it's probably bigger than the real thing because of looking up.




In front of the office that is the meeting place of the tour.



In the office, a

rose was decorated when Cesario won the American Oaks. Signed by Motohisa Fukunaga and Katsuhiko Tsujii.



The site of Kurito Torusen is about 1.5 million square meters (about 115 Koshien Stadium). It was said that 'Higashi Takanishi Low' was at the time when training was being conducted at a racetrack, but Kansai was inferior, but the situation was that it established a training center ahead of Kanto and developed a full-scale training facility. However, the Sakaji Course was established in 1985, and since 1988, the Kansai horse has overwhelmed by the annual victory number, reversing Kanto.



So, to have the facility showing the strength of the Kansai horse carefully shown.



The entire training course can be viewed from the stand. The places surrounded by white fences that are visible in the foremost area are 'Gorma Baba' and 'Marubaba', where the horses are warmed up before training. The course is arranged from the inside according to the type of obstacle course (A), dirt (B), wood chip (CW), grass (D), New Poly track (DP), dirt (E) and Baba.



Here, I had you lend me binoculars and a training number list.



If you have ever seen a horse race broadcast, there should be a horse name on the number and you should not get lost? You may think that, as shown in the photo below, there is a list of such bibs as Toresen has a number bib. The color of the bib is divided into two-year-old horse white letters on a green space, three-year-old horse black letters on a black sheet, and old horses aged four and over are divided into black letters on a white background.



Some horses do not fit that example. It is horses who are going to go on to GI race next time. This horse at the center of

Marubaba is Eishin Flash, who runs to Tokyo Yusu (Japanese Derby).




A jockey was on Aishin Flash after warming up. The riders can also be distinguished by the color of the helmet as the horses were color coded by number. A blue helmet is a jockey, a black helmet is a trainer or a training assistant, and there is an orange line in it, and the training assistant's apprentice, and so on.



The training menu is different depending on the trainer, and may be run by one person or may be competed by several players, may be run like a light stream, or may be overtaken in a production manner.





This is a single run.



Followed by three.



Far away, speaking of the course there is a gate around the corner, and there is a white building on the hill (left side of the photo), but this is the stand of the slope. Under the building there is a hedge all the way to the right, but here is the slope course. I can go here later.



The moderator of the training is Mr. Minoru

Hachitani, a former MBS announcer. And this time, as a guest, horseman Yasumasa Iwata who rides on a strong horse- Victoire Pisa came in Derby.



In fact, Iwata jockey is a regular guest of this training public tour, and seems to come almost every time. It was a very busy schedule that there was a joint press conference for Derby and that there was a plan to go to Saitama and go on a ride at the Urawa Racecourse, and to ride on the

cup . It was told that it was done.



Iwata jockey who put a sign on the shirt for the present of the tour after the talk. In addition, it was also suitable for photography with the applicant.



'Derby jockey is from a dream or something,' he said. By the way, I put on a

smart falcon and put it on the first place in this day's Satakuma cup.



After a while, it was raining on the course, and a red lamp turned on on the slope stand building. It seems that this lights up when doing course maintenance (hello).



Kore is a state of Vittoir Pisa's chasing after Iwata riders ride. Victoire Pisa, who is running 2nd in front of the other side, was able to check its appearance because the JRA staff checked it with binoculars and taught us every time a leading horse showed up. Because there is only a single run-off, and horses come on one after another, it is quite difficult for an amateur to judge which horse's condition is what it is.

Japan Derby Training Revealed Victoire Pisa-YouTube


Aisin Flash who was in Marubaba just before.

Japan Derby Training published Ashin Flash-YouTube


Three Kyoto Shimbun cups of Leverdrian.

Japan Derby Training Revealed-Lewdrian-YouTube


Lév-Dorian made it easy for the first lap, and also for the second lap.

Japan Derby Training Revealed Lewdrian (2nd lap)-YouTube


This is a gestalt.

Japan Derby Training Revealed Gestalt-YouTube


Glorias Noah who runs for Yasuda Memorial the week following Derby. Shoichi Kobayashi Shinichi jockey who won the Negishi stakes with this horse is the first heavyweight title conquest.

Japan Derby Training Open Glorias Noah (Yasuda Memorial)-YouTube


Courses are being developed during the training schedule.



Next to this, we will move to the slope stand which was already seen a while ago.



・ Continuing

The source of the strength of the Kansai group, I have visited the slope course of the Kurito Training Center



5/29 00:54 It was partially corrected.

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