October 14th, Wednesday.
Chukyo Racecourse was not hosting any Central Twinkle Series or Dream Trophy Series races during this time. As a Central racecourse located in the Chubu region, it had an additional job that other Central racecourses did not—hosting local races for the Tokai region.
Of course, as a Central racecourse, even when hosting local races, it would not lower its status. For example, today's main event, the Chukyo Cup, although it was a Graded Race limited to debut-year horse girls from the Tokai region, had a prize money of 3.6 million yen, a cut above the races at Kasamatsu and Nagoya—though in the eyes of the current him and Oguri Cap, it was only average.
But the young man had his reasons for choosing this race for her instead of the Young Crown 10 days ago—this Chukyo Cup was a 1200-meter race on turf.
In other words, here, she could get a feel for a Central racecourse's turf in advance.
He was confident in her turf aptitude, but that wasn't enough. He also needed her to be confident in her own turf aptitude. And this Chukyo Cup was very suitable for her to realize that her turf aptitude was very good.
But at this moment, Oguri Cap, sitting in the back seat of the BE-1, did not know that there was such a thought behind his decision to enter the Chukyo Cup.
She was curiously looking around. The crowd that had come to watch at Chukyo Racecourse today was quite large—after all, as a Central-managed racecourse, its capacity was more than three times that of Kasamatsu and Nagoya combined.
"It feels like there are more spectators at this race than on that day at the end of August," Brand New Shine, sitting beside her, said.
"Instead of marveling at that, you should take her to get used to her shoes later. It's a turf race today. I had you help her change both her shoes and horseshoes," he reminded her while driving.
"Yes, yes, yes~" Brand New Shine pouted. "Don't worry, Trainer. I was very careful and picked out the best turf running shoes for her!"
"Just as I analyzed for you yesterday," he turned to instruct Oguri Cap, "this turf race is only 1200 meters, and the track is horseshoe-shaped. We've drawn gate 3, which gives us an advantage. This time, I need you to continue as you did in the race against Fujimasa March, stick to her from the start, and as soon as you exit the turn, accelerate immediately, without any hesitation. Because although the final straight at Chukyo Racecourse is 412 meters long, there's an uphill slope in the middle that's only slightly less steep than the one at Nakayama, which will greatly affect your sprint speed. So you must overtake her as soon as possible without any hesitation."
"I understand," she said, without any sign of annoyance, just a solemn nod. "I will hold on to victory this time as well."
"Of course," he said, parking the car and grinning. "We are going to defeat Central!"
Symboli Rudolf and Maruzensky, with the bay-coated horse girl following behind them, got out of the car and stood outside the entrance of Chukyo Racecourse.
"President! Let's go in together!" The bay-coated horse girl impatiently strode forward, passing Symboli Rudolf, wanting to step inside.
"Teio-chan, you can't run ahead," Maruzensky said with a smile, placing a hand on her shoulder, preventing her from moving any further. "Rudolf-chan is probably waiting for someone. Let's wait with her for a bit."
"Is the president waiting for someone?" "Teio" blinked. "Who?"
"Hehe," Maruzensky knew the answer, but she had no intention of telling the junior before her. So she put a finger to her lips in a hushing gesture.
…
After seeing them off through the internal passage, he turned around, preparing to enter the stands from the normal entrance.
But when he arrived at the entrance, he found it was packed with people.
"It looks like they're crowding around something," he frowned, finding it a bit troublesome.
Although he was curious about who they were crowding around, he had more important things to do right now—he had to get a spot by the railing to carefully observe her current running condition after this month of training.
So he weaved through the crowd, step by step, along the outer edge, approaching the entrance of the racecourse.
But just as he was about to step in—
"Zhou Tai'an!!" a voice he hadn't heard in a year called out to him.
The young man's mouth twitched, he closed his eyes, and sighed. "Why is it that the one person I don't want to see is the one who shows up?"
He turned around, forced a smile, and waved at Symboli Rudolf, who had called out his name.
Bathed in the gazes of the crowd, he stood and waited for her and the other two horse girls to come to him.
"It's been a long time, Zhou-kun," the "Emperor" of Central said with a smile.
He bowed slightly, then replied, "I didn't expect you would come to see a race in our backwater, Miss Symboli Rudolf."
"Hehe," she squinted, her tone still calm. "Although the general level of horse girls in the Tokai region is not high, I'm sure that after a year, with your training level, you've surely produced a horse girl that will catch my eye, right, Zhou-kun?"
"Of course," he was quite confident. "We're even planning to see how the Central horse girls fare next year."
"Oh? Is that so?" Maruzensky feigned surprise. "Then we'll have to take a good look at the strength of the horse girl you've trained."
Only the bay-coated horse girl following behind her had her eyes darting around. She was curious about the relationship between her respected senior and this strange man she had never met before.
"It's almost as if the president has done something to wrong him," she muttered to herself.
Just as she was lost in thought, he also noticed her.
The young man walked up to her, carefully looked at the horse girl who was clearly far from her 'honkaku-ka' phase, and asked, "What's your name?"
"Me?" The bay-coated horse girl came back to her senses, pointed at herself, then lifted her head and met his gaze without any fear. "My name is Tokai Teio! And I'm the horse girl who will become the undefeated Triple Crown winner in the future!"
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