Horse racing: Top-favorite Chrono Genesis wins 65th Arima Kinen

Jockey Yuichi Kitamura steered top-favorite Chrono Genesis to victory in the 65th running of the Arima Kinen on Sunday, the third career Grade 1 triumph for the 4-year-old filly.Chrono Genesis won a sprint over the final 300 meters of the 2,500-meter race on turf to finish in 2 minutes, 35 seconds, a neck ahead of 11th-favorite Salacia, with second-favorite Fierement a neck further back.After a clean start out of the gate, Kitamura kept Chrono Genesis back in the pack for the first third of the race at Chiba Prefecture's Nakayama Racecourse east of Tokyo."She negotiated the pack really smoo…READ FULL ARTICLE