{"id":430322,"date":"2025-09-17T04:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/430322\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T04:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:04:17","slug":"step-into-a-starting-gate-at-oi-racecourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/430322\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Into a Starting Gate at Oi Racecourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Oi Racecourse in Shinagawa, Tokyo, it&#8217;s not just the horses that burst from the starting gate. A photo spot with four full-sized stalls lets visitors experience the thrill of a race start.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/M5CXQXNT2RPGTFLVJIIFKHCIDQ-min-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359326\"  \/>Experience the pre-race tension felt by jockeys and racehorses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step Into a Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting gates ensure a fair start by releasing all the horses at once. According to Tokyo City Keiba spokesperson Takuto Watanabe, the replica stalls measure about 4.5 meters long and 3 meters high. Aside from the height being adjusted, they are identical to those used in official races.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4PNJDVLWTFIEHNUNXOIXYB6U2M-min-1024x736.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359328\"  \/>Visitors pose for photos.<\/p>\n<p>Though slightly cramped inside, the photo spot allows visitors a taste of the pre-start tension and the rush that jockeys and horses feel when the gates fly open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankei.com\/article\/20250908-JRGGHAODKJI2DFZIBML3WGKBVM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">in Japanese<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/japan-forward.com\/author\/MasahiroSakai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Masahiro Sakai<\/a>, The Sankei Shimbun<\/p>\n<p>\t\tContinue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Oi Racecourse in Shinagawa, Tokyo, it&#8217;s not just the horses that burst from the starting gate. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[288,146537,146538,146539,1071,79,146541,146540,7808,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-430322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-horse-racing","9":"tag-oi-racecourse","10":"tag-photo-spot","11":"tag-racehorse","12":"tag-racing","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-starting-gate","15":"tag-starting-stalls","16":"tag-tokyo","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115217660596652534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}