Monday, June 02, 2008
playin' the ponies
Yesterday meltin faces, mornin, and I all headed over to Oi-keibabjyo (大井競馬場) for some rockin horse racing action! We got there at around 3:20 or so with the first race kicking off at 3:55 so we ran around like chickens with our proverbial heads cut off trying to figure out exactly what to do with the betting system we were dealing with. Well, by the end of the night we had figured out most of it, but there are still a few ways to bet that I'm still unsure of... I am somewhat familiar with the system we have back home, but this was my first time to go to the track over here and wasn't sure exactly what my options were. So the first race went off and I bet solely on name value for that one, putting my money on "Green Seattle" and "Go Go Tiger" for obvious reasons! "Green Seattle" was a big ol' pile of glue, but "Go Go Tiger" came in for my only real victory of the day, I won about 1300 on a 200 yen bet. That was the peak of my betting... all day... the first race... We stayed all day and watched the next 9 races with some success, some failure, and a bunch of almost! Over all it was pretty good times though, I'd love to head back out sometime again this summer for sure. The big draw aside from the ponies is the light show that happens between each race (nightime only dude), hence the name "twinkle race". In the infield of the track they have a giant net that lights up and displays a bunch of different patters between the races (my guess is that it would distract the horses if it were on during the races) along with your typical Christmas looking lights on the hedges and bushes and such. It's actually pretty cool, might be a bit more impressive without the big ass flood lights that illuminate the track, but what are you gonna do?
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