Would you like to buy a “frame number consecutive win”? Since I am a hole party, I currently only buy triples and triples, and I can't buy a betting ticket that wins the frame number. For this reason, I am not interested in frame wins, but there are races that focus on frame wins once a year. It is the “Tanabata Award” held at the Fukushima Racecourse.
The Tanabata Award was a heavy award race founded in 1965, and was once held in October under the name of Tohoku Memorial. It is held on Sunday the day before. This race is only in Tanabata, and the 7th slot Zoro eyes “7-7”, which has won consecutive wins, has been attracting attention. Attention is that 7-7 sells well. In the Tanabata Award, the odds of the 7-7 wins of the frame number wins are considerably lower than the two “Maban consecutive wins” of the 7 frames each year.
In the Tanabata Award last year, the odds of the two horse number wins 9-10 that entered the 7 slots with 12 heads were 165.8 times, but the 7-7 of the frame number wins was 45.5 times. Last year, the horse number streak 9-10 was 98.5 times and the frame number 7-7 was 36.1 times. And this year, on the 7th of July in Tanabata, Maban consecutive win 13-14 was 53.1 times, and frame number 7-7 was 23.2 times. If you look at the odds, I think it's definitely better to buy a horse number win than a frame win, but only this race seems to have a lot of fans 7-7, not a horse win.
In 1985, when I entered a horse racing job, the only types of betting tickets (win horse voting tickets) were single wins, double wins, and the current 8 consecutive wins. In a frame win, even if an unpopular horse wins, if the win is the most popular horse in the same slot, the payout will not be very high. So, at that time, there was rarely a “Manba ticket” with a refund of 10,000 yen or more.
In addition, even if a 10,000 horse ticket was issued, the boss said, “Don't say that a horse ticket was issued in the relay” because “it is not good to inspire you”. It was a different world compared to the present time when I get a refund exceeding 3 million yen in a single unit.
Even so, if you don't have two popular horses in the same frame, you will get a high dividend. In this respect, the 12th race of Tokyo Horse Racing on February 16, 1986 is an unforgettable race. It was the next race of Meguro Memorial, where the most popular bingo-chimur won 10 wins and the consecutive winning combination was a high dividend of 7230 yen. Nishino Marimo, the 10th most popular of the 13 heads, wins, and 2nd is the 11th most popular Nishino Marimo. Since both of them were in the 7 frame, the 7-7 in the consecutive winning combination became a horse ticket of 88,570 yen.
It was the first high dividend that I saw for the first time in half a year since I started working for a horse race. I remember that the rent of the apartment that I lived at that time (6 tatami mats, no bath) was 35,000 yen per month, so I thought "I can get a change even if I pay for 2 months of rent". The next day's sports newspaper included headlines such as “I went out, 885 times!” And “Orange's impact”. The Tanabata Award 7-7 may be intriguing because the impression at this time is still in the corner of the head.
This year's Tanabata Award will be the only female jockey in the center, Nanako Fujita, who will be participating in the 7-year-old horse Gold Cerberus. As I thought, Gold Cerberus was 6 frames. The 6-frame Mickey Swallows won the race, and the 2nd was an 8-frame crescendo love. So this year, the “Star Festival 7-7” since the race that Sakura Sakura won in 1986 was not seen.
Still next year, the Tanabata Award will be held again in July. And the 7-7 win in the frame number wins should attract attention. In July, the Tokyo Olympics baseball and softball will be held in Fukushima. I am looking forward to July.