Every year at the Obihiro racecourse, we have held races from New Year day and when we open at 10:30 am on the first day local children will knock the drum and jockeys will give sweets and visitors Welcomed.

Banba horse race is carried out on a straight course 200 meters long, competing for the speed with which a horse hits a warp of more than 500 kg. A day was racing in the morning as the snow continued, but by the afternoon, 1,200 people, including families, came all the way to the railroad fence and sent cheers to the horse that thrived hard , I was photographing the state of the race.

A woman in his thirties who came from Sapporo with his family said, "I saw it for the first time, but I was amazed at the impressive force and it was fun." Banba horse racing's New Year race will be held everyday until 5th of this month.