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On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

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TheSmallSauce said:
Wonder if the Indy 500 is an uma race in the umaverse. It's the perfect race for Shirogane, a race that's more or less 200 laps on a 4 kilometre loop as fast as you can go with as few breaks as you need.
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I can see it now.
Shirogane is in last for the first 70 or so laps, but just keeps chugging along until around 110-120 then just jumps to top 3 from others having to slow down and/or take pit stops. Wins it and still acts like it was a light run at worst, while everyone else is dead tired.
 
TheSmallSauce said:
Wonder if the Indy 500 is an uma race in the umaverse. It's the perfect race for Shirogane, a race that's more or less 200 laps on a 4 kilometre loop as fast as you can go with as few breaks as you need.
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I've been wondering what Shirogane's ideal race would be. Boston Marathon? Tour de France on foot? Steel Ball Run? Nah, not enough concrete and urban maneuvering.
 
Murderthon.

It's a 'tri-half-marathon' of different course types and you have to shoot targets at the middle of each type of track. It's still a relatively 'short' race as far as marathon types are concerned, being 3 laps on a 6k track. But considering Uma race distances combined with not needing to stop to shoot the targets, she takes it easily.

Normally it favors acceleration, stamina, and wits, which are already Shirogane's best stats, but the extra strength of only needing to accelerate once makes her an easy victor.
 
Now imagine a collab outfit, Race Queen Shirogane, in which every uma aside from her is dressed in checkered clothing and dubiously cut racing leathers, and Shiro is in a driver's suit and helmet. You can't actually tell it's her, the only clue being how short she is.

"Eh, Shiro, why are you dressed so differently?"

"Yeah, no fair, I also want to wear a helmet!"

"But then no one would be able to see your mask, El."

"Oh yeah! Hmm..."

"To answer your question, it is because I will be participating in the race; I have a driver's license."

"Huh?!"

"What? Since when?"

"I'm also forklift certified. Please come and support me at the annual pallet stacking tournament happening later today."
 
Many sports were undergoing major changes in the early 2000s. If uma racing followed similar trends, the focus of the Golden era was on increasing efficiency/optimization somehow.

Shirogane has got that done. Hugging the rails, extreme training, that weirdly stable running style focused on limiting wasted energy, throwing herself down slopes instead of merely running down, etc. Everything she does is to squeeze a few extra milliseconds off the clock to optimize her warhorse build to compete against dedicated racehorses.

Unlike one-off, genetic freakshows like Goldship, everything she does is reproducible (to some extent) by a dedicated uma. There is a good chance that after a season or two, others will notice and start copying whatever she's doing. For better or for worse, Shirogane will change things.

Then decades later, you'd get videos like this glazing Shiro:

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6tD7AAMMwns
 
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