On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

CuriousMan · 2026-09-22T13:01:42+0100

TheSmallSauce said:
Steady Distance - Kyori wa, mikata da.(Distance is on her side)

Compared to some umamusume outfits, I think this one's pretty sensible and logical far what you might find in a racing environment.

manatherindrell · 2026-09-22T13:09:20+0100

Kojiro Kakita said:
Similar to CinGray where we see Oguri with a young TM Opera, maybe we will get a cameo of a young Meno meeting with Shiro at a fan event

Is that manga or anime? Please tell me it's manga, because if it's anime I have to start wondering how the hell I missed it every time.

TheSmallSauce · 2026-09-22T13:41:17+0100

manatherindrell said:
Is that manga or anime? Please tell me it's manga, because if it's anime I have to start wondering how the hell I missed it every time.

Manga, I actually think it's been posted here before.

TheSmallSauce said:
There's a cute panel in Cinderella Grey where Oguri takes a picture with a young TM Opera O, I imagine Shiro does the same for Vodka. Which makes me wonder if Vodka's idea of cool gets influenced by Shiro beyond the choice of race?

Oh, I posted it.

Also I'm just now realizing I forgot to draw Steady's tail. How does this always happen?

CuriousMan said:
Compared to some umamusume outfits, I think this one's pretty sensible and logical far what you might find in a racing environment.

Going off the postman theme Wrandm had laid out... Originally the idea was just to give her a puffy Union Line jacket over top a crop-top and skirt, but I get the feeling that Steady is too fashionable to settle for that. Also the navy blue and electric yellow combo is going to take some justifying from her end when Shiro eventually asks about it.

"This color combination is... by your own admission, quite garish."

"Er.. Well you see... Err... It's what my jockey wore!"

"What?"

"Huh?"

edit:

wtdtd said:
I assumed it's just behind the clothing in this shot.

Let's just go with that.

wtdtd · 2026-09-22T13:49:32+0100

TheSmallSauce said:
Also I'm just now realizing I forgot to draw Steady's tail. How does this always happen?

I assumed it's just behind the clothing in this shot.

WrandmWaffles · 2026-09-22T18:12:57+0100

Drageos said:
Once a horse secures their percentage based on where they finish, that specific payout is split using the 80/10/5/5 owner-trainer-jockey-staff breakdown outlined above."

fredthebadger said:
If anything, the Uma would be the Owner.

Yeah the Uma would effectively be the owner in terms of cut, the trainer might get both the jockey and trainer cut.

Kojiro Kakita said:
Similar to CinGray where we see Oguri with a young TM Opera, maybe we will get a cameo of a young Meno meeting with Shiro at a fan event

Not sure if the timeline works since horse Fenomeno was born in 2009, at which point Shiro would no longer be running. If there was an anime or manga for this theoretical umaverse, the Uma that is depicted as inspired by Shiro is probably Vodka because she runs in the Tokyo Derby as a mare.

Crispy Taco Shell said:
Oh look. Here is a Shirogane! She's so factory fresh, she still has that plastic film on the dash! Everybody wants her.

Shadai ~~Farms~~Family: "That one! We need that one!"

Fuji Kiseki would probably be high on the list of studs they'd want to pair horse Shiro with. Also Silence Suzuka before he died, since it would be noted that the two horses seemed to be friends with each other.

arky4444 said:
We have six weeks between the Kikuka Sho and the Tokyo Daishoten. Practice time

There's also the Stayer's Stake, where Shiro might look like Secretariat because the competition in the 1998 one isn't that strong. By the time she's done they're probably naming the race after her.

Tonyloco said:
I see Shirogane being considered a legend in later years, by staying racing way past her generation and winning against younger and younger Umas every year.

It's not like there won't be strong competition in the coming years, but Shiro could become a "Gatekeeper to Greatness" since runners who can beat her will probably make it big.

Or in the umamusume game verse, the meme is that "can the horse beat Shirogane once" is a determining question for will they be in the game.

PinkShadowReader said:
Actually when I think about it a marathon would be great way to show case Shiro strengths. There might not be one in Japan but there could very well be in another part of the world.

Shirogane at the 2000 Sydney Olympics sneaking past the follow along camera crew because she's going so fast for a marathon.

PinkShadowReader said:
Why did she get a shiver when it was specifically not because of the temperature?

She was thinking about running in these track conditions and not liking the idea.

TheSmallSauce said:
Steady Distance - Kyori wa, mikata da.

Very nice! The colors do look a little silly, but honestly not too out of place among Uma outfits. I guess it's a reference to her dad being a higher up in the postal service or something.

Stracio said:
Minor correction, but the Kyodo News Service Hai (Kyodo Tsushin Hai) was (and still is) a G3.

D'oh! Should be fixed now.

TheSmallSauce said:
"This color combination is... by your own admission, quite garish."

"Er.. Well you see... Err... It's what my jockey wore!"

"What?"

"Huh?"

"My trainer liked it…"

"Ah right, it does come down to that much of the time with you, doesn't it."

Dopplerdee · 2026-09-22T18:52:48+0100

WrandmWaffles said:
Shirogane at the 2000 Sydney Olympics sneaking past the follow along camera crew because she's going so fast for a marathon.

It occurs to me that Marathon's are probs the only running event that humans can out preform Uma at to a degree... except for Shiro who is a monster who is both fine on asphalt/cement and also a persistence predator.

Centergg · 2026-09-22T18:54:42+0100

WrandmWaffles said:
There's also the Stayer's Stake, where Shiro might look like Secretariat because the competition in the 1998 one isn't that strong. By the time she's done they're probably naming the race after her.

I have misread That as "Slayer's Stake" and thought what it would be Shirogane obtaining New nickname after the race

arky4444 · 2026-09-22T19:13:45+0100

arky4444 said:
We have six weeks between the Kikuka Sho and the Tokyo Daishoten. Practice time:

WrandmWaffles said:
There's also the Stayer's Stake, where Shiro might look like Secretariat because the competition in the 1998 one isn't that strong. By the time she's done they're probably naming the race after her.

G2 Stayers Stakes (12/5/98, T3600m): 1st place, 64.73 million yen; it was raining that day too.

As much fun as it was to cook up a scenario where Shirogane just barely misses out on setting a new single-year JPN earnings record, it's more likely that she will set a new record, despite not running the Arima Kinen, simply out of sheer volume. I already had to heavily nerf her just to ensure that she stayed close to Narita Brian's earnings, simply because running both Triple sets + as many trial races as she can schedule is already overpowered for earnings.

If we take the same list of races that I listed out, change all of her losses to 2nd place instead of 3rd-5th, add the Japan Cup at 2nd place between El Condor Pasa and Air Groove (53.92 million) and Stayers Stakes at 1st place, then Shirogane will earn a jaw-dropping 1033.53 million yen (just shy of T.M.Opera O's record of 1036.00 million yen in 2000), with her 1998 race record being 29-10-19-0, career record 39-12-27-0.

Kojiro Kakita · 2026-09-22T19:26:49+0100

manatherindrell said:
Is that manga or anime? Please tell me it's manga, because if it's anime I have to start wondering how the hell I missed it every time.

Manga

WrandmWaffles said:
Not sure if the timeline works since horse Fenomeno was born in 2009, at which point Shiro would no longer be running. If there was an anime or manga for this theoretical umaverse, the Uma that is depicted as inspired by Shiro is probably Vodka because she runs in the Tokyo Derby as a mare

Hmmm in that case, Shiro's killer instincts may inspire the 5th place Uma of the 2007 Derby.

Tiypo · 2026-09-22T19:30:30+0100

Dopplerdee said:
It occurs to me that Marathon's are probs the only running event that humans can out preform Uma at to a degree... except for Shiro who is a monster who is both fine on asphalt/cement and also a persistence predator.

A lot of people forget that, especially when it comes to Tracen uma, which are entirely Thoroughbreds (Shirogane being the exception) and have poor endurance in exchange for their speed.

Assuming most Trainers stay in very good shape, there's a nearby hill, and given a few minutes head start, there's a very good chance a Trainer could escape most of the trainees.

Drageos · 2026-09-22T19:43:52+0100

WrandmWaffles said:
Yeah the Uma would effectively be the owner in terms of cut, the trainer might get both the jockey and trainer cut.

But then the question becomes how much money an Uma actually takes home after all of her expenses. Which depending on if the academy covers the food bill for its students and whether they just charge more in tuition as a result. A lot of that prize money might go to food bills among other things.

Winged One · 2026-09-22T19:52:50+0100

Pinklestia said:
Literally no male Umas so inbreeding would be harder.

The racing families are nobility-coded, so they're likely putting in the effort to be inbred anyway.

ScarletFox · 2026-09-22T20:34:17+0100

WrandmWaffles said:
There's also the Stayer's Stake, where Shiro...

...is finally visibly tired after a race ^_^.

I mean, every other race has all the leaders panting and falling over after finishing and they are half the length of Stayer's.
Shiro's comment on her win. "I shouldn't have run that 5k I usually do in the morning."

Zweibach · 2026-09-22T20:47:33+0100

WrandmWaffles said:
The preparations for moving to a boarding school in Tokyo had proceeded more smoothly than Shirogane had expected, in large part because the scholarship she had managed to win included lodgings at an apartment near the school, which came with some discounted furniture. While the school had two dormitories on campus (they had a frankly absurd amount of facilities for a campus in Tokyo), by this point most of the slots had already been filled up.

Having a family restaurant also meant that they had a fair amount of spare kitchenware lying around so it was rather trivial to pack a set. Toujou-san had pointed out that every Tracen student, regardless of housing situation, would have access to the cafeteria, but it wouldn't hurt. She was also not one to fill her space with many decorations or useless things, so packing had not been terribly difficult.

WrandmWaffles said:
It was rather interesting how the meal plan was included in the tuition intrinsically, without any scaling based on consumption rate. Perhaps she could take cafeteria food out to eat later?

Cafeteria food is covered by tuition and Shiro's is covered by her scholarship.

JoHu · 2026-09-22T21:39:44+0100

I don't remember where I saw it or if it was in a story or a comment, but it said that the umas who have already competed keep going to school because, at first, they focus on their sports careers and their studies take a back seat—otherwise, they'd be overwhelmed by having to study and train at the same time. So, the umas who finish their sports careers go back to school, and that's why the UMAs who are of legal age keep going to Tracen I don't know how feasible that is, but I liked that idea.

Critian Caceorte · 2026-09-22T22:01:00+0100

WrandmWaffles said:
Not sure if the timeline works since horse Fenomeno was born in 2009, at which point Shiro would no longer be running. If there was an anime or manga for this theoretical umaverse, the Uma that is depicted as inspired by Shiro is probably Vodka because she runs in the Tokyo Derby as a mare.

Wait, why would the IRL timeline even matter in this case? Opera O ran almost a decade after Oguri retired, yet (granted, it's never explicitly STATED that the young Uma Oguri inspired is Opera) CinGrey's manga has that scene regardless. The reason why people think it's Opera that got inspired is because the "Oguri Cap Rule" of getting in past the registration date of the Classics by paying extra is what allowed Opera to compete at all in her classic year.

In this instance, I'm not sure what's exactly wrong with Feno being inspired, though admittedly I'm unsure as to why specifically others said it would be her. I'm just objecting to the reason for the rejection here, not the result.

Tonyloco · 2026-09-22T22:18:39+0100

arky4444 said:
G2 Stayers Stakes (12/5/98, T3600m): 1st place, 64.73 million yen; it was raining that day too.

As much fun as it was to cook up a scenario where Shirogane just barely misses out on setting a new single-year JPN earnings record, it's more likely that she will set a new record, despite not running the Arima Kinen, simply out of sheer volume. I already had to heavily nerf her just to ensure that she stayed close to Narita Brian's earnings, simply because running both Triple sets + as many trial races as she can schedule is already overpowered for earnings.

If we take the same list of races that I listed out, change all of her losses to 2nd place instead of 3rd-5th, add the Japan Cup at 2nd place between El Condor Pasa and Air Groove (53.92 million) and Stayers Stakes at 1st place, then Shirogane will earn a jaw-dropping 1033.53 million yen (just shy of T.M.Opera O's record of 1036.00 million yen in 2000), with her 1998 race record being 29-10-19-0, career record 39-12-27-0.

I can easily imagine Shirogane creating some kind of Pro Uma's charity in her later years with so much money to spend.

Im not sure how well or bad charities and similar institutions are in their world but she always seemed to have a soft spot for kids, so creating a charity or something similar for young kids/umas would be a good way to spend her money (and avoid paying taxes by too)

I it could be helping poor kids in many ways perhaps orphanages, or money for school, or even food, medical treatment or similar charities.

Since I'm sure she's going to make it big with her Restaurant or any other business she creates after she retires or even while she takes it easy with her races (doing only half of her yearly races to the relief of all her opponents) in her later years.

That's my head cannon on how she would keep herself busy in the future.

Impstar · 2026-09-22T23:05:25+0100

ScarletFox said:
Shiro's comment on her win. "I shouldn't have run that 5k I usually do in the morning."

I get the joke, but she only does light warmups on racing days (actually light, not "exhausts anyone but Shiro" light, as far as I can tell).

Kojiro Kakita · 2026-09-22T23:06:48+0100

Critian Caceorte said:
Wait, why would the IRL timeline even matter in this case? Opera O ran almost a decade after Oguri retired, yet (granted, it's never explicitly STATED that the young Uma Oguri inspired is Opera) CinGrey's manga has that scene regardless. The reason why people think it's Opera that got inspired is because the "Oguri Cap Rule" of getting in past the registration date of the Classics by paying extra is what allowed Opera to compete at all in her classic year.

In this instance, I'm not sure what's exactly wrong with Feno being inspired, though admittedly I'm unsure as to why specifically others said it would be her. I'm just objecting to the reason for the rejection here, not the result.

Because if the year in story is 1997-98 then Feno presuming she would be of High school age in 2012, would be like 1-3 years old in 98.

Opera O would have been 5-7 in that scene if we go by years.

Which is why I am now thinking it makes sense for Dream Journey since she would be 7 or 8 in 98.

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