Fans revel in ‘suspense’ of world’s slowest horse race in Japan

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An old tradition has been finding a new audience in Japan. Known by many as the world’s slowest horse race, the Banei Keiba has been around since Japanese settlers first arrived in the northern island of Hokkaido. Muscular workhorses must steer heavy sleighs down a 200-metre (656ft) track. Today, only one racecourse still hosts the event, but thanks to renewed marketing efforts and a pandemic-fuelled surge in interest, the horse racing tradition might not yet be on its last legs.