After going boarding every week in winter, I’d been starting to go a little stir-crazy being stuck in Gifu every weekend, so today I decided to go for a good old-fashioned Japanese one day trip out of town. Today was a national holiday (marking the start of Golden Week I think), which of course meant that everywhere would be packed.
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Had a cool, if slightly pointless day today, having a flutter on the Gee-Gees. Apparently, I was wrong before about gambling being illegal in Japan. It turns out that it is legal to bet at racetracks, so I spent the afternoon at a local one in Kasamatsu today with Trev and Ben, laying down a few bets and watching my horses fail to come in. I don’t gamble at all, apart from the Grand National, so it was a pretty new experience for me. In fact, I won on the National this year, enough to cover all my other (mi)stakes at least, so I was feeling lucky.
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