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Think That Over

(FRI) December 5th, 2025

8:37 p.m. Narukami's win odds is showing 1.8 at the moment.

Well, perhaps that can't be helped since there doesn't seem to be a horse to beat. I was thinking that horses drawing inner posts would be good candidates. Unfortunately, though the inner post drawers are mostly either too old or unreliable. Narukami is probably just pushed out onto the top of the win odds list.

Personally, I didn' tthink Narukami was rock solid considering that he's a runaway, so I wanted to find a different horse to key from inner post drawers. Well, I might have to think that over.

The End

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