There’s no contest. Golden Route, eat your heart out. Board the bullet train at Tokyo Station, and in two and a half hours you’ll have crossed the midriff of Japan’s main island, Honshu ...

The Tobishima Kaido is a network of bridges linking seven Seto Inland Sea islands. The route starts in Shimo-kamagari near Kure in Hiroshima Prefecture and extends to Okamura in Ehime Prefecture.

Golden Sixty will not travel to Japan for next month’s Group One Yasuda Kinen (1,600m), with jockey Vincent Ho Chak-yiu expressing disappointment that the superstar miler won’t get a ...