On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

[Kazumaa23]

Indeed, the winning live dances and songs are set. Runners can't make up their own. However it seems like some umas do the idol thing separately from racing and they can have their own songs and dances there but all the race ones are set by the uma racing association or something.

All umas are taught both the winning and backup dancer routines for all songs.

 

[WrandmWaffles]

At that point you're leaving not only your backup dancers behind, but also your music. Just dance without music at all at that point. Moreover the winning concert is a group dance, I'm pretty sure if she went to literally anyone with that in mind as coreagraphy they'd just go, "yeah no." Hell I don't think that the girls even make up their own dances; for one, all the girls need to know it, so winning dances are probably quite set. For her personal song/dance which she needs to qualify for the Tiara races, a display of gymnastics is not what I think anyone is looking for. Half of the point of using Polish songs is that she comes across as more expressive there.

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Indeed, the winning live dances and songs are set. Runners can't make up their own. However it seems like some umas do the idol thing separately from racing and they can have their own songs and dances here but all the race ones are set by the uma racing association or something.

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While it seems to be the case that most of the songs are set, and it makes sense, because there is no possible way for the backups to learn a new dance for each individual competitor in case they win, there apparently is some cases of the runners having their own thing, like Oguri Cap, but that might have been because it was at a local racecourse.

What I'm going with for this fic is that most of the winning live songs are set, with the exception of the Triple Tiara races (maybe QE2, or other races dedicated to fillies), where the winning uma has a solo performance. This is running with the idea that the distinction between colts and fillies is expressed in pure runners vs umadols, so the latter winning one of their dedicated races basically gives them a big stage to help kick up their idol career/profile, hence a requirement for qualifying for the Triple Tiara races being having a solo performance of your own, something that Shirogane initially had trouble coming up with.

This also somewhat explains why the 'fillies' are generally seen as weaker (and usually are), because they are splitting more of their training efforts into the idol/performance side of things, and probably also need to have more time dedicated to their appearance or public persona. The 'colts', being for full on jock, might see this as bit of a waste of time, while the 'fillies' could say the 'colts' are unsophisticated meatheads. Shirogane was put into the 'colt' class because she wasn't initially expecting to try for the 'filly' races, even though she's technically a 'mare'.

It's the explanation that makes the most sense to me to distinguish between the irl colt and filly races, as since all umas are female it would not really make sense for these two categories to exist otherwise.

 

[Impstar]

This also somewhat explains why the 'fillies' are generally seen as weaker (and usually are), because they are splitting more of their training efforts into the idol/performance side of things, and probably also need to have more time dedicated to their appearance or public persona. The 'colts', being for full on jock, might see this as bit of a waste of time, while the 'fillies' could say the 'colts' are unsophisticated meatheads. Shirogane was put into the 'colt' class because she wasn't initially expecting to try for the 'filly' races, even though she's technically a 'mare'.

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And then every once in a while you get a Vodka, or Almond Eye, or Gentildonna, who just go lol, lmao even.

 

[WrandmWaffles]

Just a funny thought, for the IRL horse Shirogane, her foal name might have been 'Suzuki', because they kept losing track of her and tied a bell on her to stop getting jumpscared by her. It didn't really work.

 

[WillowFriend]

Just a funny thought, for the IRL horse Shirogane, her foal name might have been 'Suzuki', because they kept losing track of her and tied a bell on her to stop getting jumpscared by her. It didn't really work.

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"Back when Shirogane Orzel was Suzuki, we had a hard time keeping track of her. Even when someone's minding her, she finds a way to slip past them without us noticing it. We tried tying a bell to see if we can find her faster. Somehow, Suzuki was able to figure out a way to be sneakier, even with the bell on. Suzuki's really smart at disappearing and reappearing that we thought that Suzuki was a ninja."

-Shirogane Orzel's caretaker

 

[Herofox]

Just a funny thought, for the IRL horse Shirogane, her foal name might have been 'Suzuki', because they kept losing track of her and tied a bell on her to stop getting jumpscared by her. It didn't really work.

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That makes me wonder about any horses that might've been particularly close with the IRL Shirogne variant.