Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 15 Demo and Shining Star Series

Relying on the telescope, Kitahara immediately turned the lens to the center of the training ground.

As luck would have it, he saw the starting point and everything was ready.

The iron railings form a long facility, and the facilities are also separated by iron railings to form "gates", and each "gate" has a pair of closed "gates" in front of it.

The opening of the "gate" means the start of the game.

The horse racing ladies are located behind the gates of each lane.

There's something interesting about this starting facility.

In the history of this world, someone has tried to let horse race girls start in the same way as humans do in racing. It turned out that if the horse race girls started in a squatting position, they would almost without exception lose their balance after standing up, and it would take a long time to adjust their running posture.

Not only that, the sound of the starting gun will scare most horse racing girls, causing them to lose control of their emotions and become completely unable to run. They will also not be able to calm down for a long time after leaving the stadium.

All these indicate that the center of gravity of horse girls when running and their judgment of signals are completely different from those of humans, that is, their physique and talents are different. Therefore, with the development of research, the starting method of horse girls in this world will be the same as that of racehorses in another world, using starting facilities such as "gates".

As Kitahara saw the horse racing ladies getting ready, he heard his colleagues nearby talking.

"Hmm? Isn't that the Fujimasa March? Is she the first one to be tested?"

"It looks like that. I guess Fujimasa March is the first in this group."

"I believe her."

After listening to a few words from his colleagues, Kitahara saw the simulation match on the training ground through the telescope.

"Start!"

Following a loud shout from the teacher in charge of the starting point beside the runway, a row of gates at the starting point opened in unison.

Almost at the same time, several gusts of wind-like figures rushed out of the gate accompanied by a vibration sound like beating drums.

Strictly speaking, this was actually the first time that Beiyuan saw the horse racing girls compete with his own eyes after traveling through time. Only then did he realize that his previous understanding of horse racing girls was too one-sided.

Previously, he thought that horse racing girls would show obvious differences on the playing field due to their natural talents.

For example, in the simulation race that is currently going on, he is very clear that compared with other horse girls, Fujimasa March is unique and has outstanding talents far beyond other horse girls. So if one watches this race, there should be a very obvious difference in viewing experience.

Facts proved that he was wrong. The talent difference between the horse racing girls only applies to each other. For humans, there is actually no difference.

Because even the least talented horse racing girl can only run at a speed of over 10 meters per second, which is a speed that is beyond the reach of humans.

Kitahara almost couldn't keep up with the speed of the horse racing girls. Fortunately, he had a telescope and stood quite far away, so he could capture the figures of the horse racing girls clearly.

He adjusted his mind and stopped paying attention with the mentality of an ordinary person. Instead, he observed and analyzed with the qualities of a professional trainer.

The main target of his analysis was the Fujimasa March.

Analyzing from a professional perspective, the talent gap among horse racing ladies can be seen very clearly.

Fujimasa March's figure is easy to recognize, she is the only Ashigao horse girl in this simulation race.

Her long silver-gray hair was neatly groomed, and when her figure flew by, the silver afterimage left behind seemed to have a strange glow, which looked extremely pleasing to the eye.

In addition to her prominent figure, Kitahara also valued Fujimasa's talent. The horse racing girls in this competition were all new students and had basically not received any professional training, but Fujimasa was not like that.

Her starting posture just now was very skillful, and she started almost one second before the gate opened, which bought her about one second. According to her previous training speed, combined with the speed of other horse girls, that was an advantage of about 6 meters.

Her running posture is also very beautiful. Both her pushing off the ground and swinging her arms are very rhythmic, as is her breathing. It seems that she has received professional training before.

It is not difficult to understand why her training results are so outstanding. Maybe I was overthinking about Xiaolimao's results before. Xiaolimao has never received professional training before. So after professional training, she should be able to...

Kitahara didn't think any further, because the competition on the training ground was only a short distance of 800 meters, which could be completed in about a minute at the speed of the horse girl.

"Time: 50 seconds!"

Perhaps because he was a little excited about the result, the teacher at the finish line of the training ground announced this number in a loud voice that could be heard all the way to Kitahara.

Shibasaki and others beside Kitahara naturally heard it as well.

"Oh! As expected of Fujimasa March, this result is definitely the most outstanding horse girl in Kasamatsu!"

"It seems that she is the most outstanding horse girl this year... Damn it, Shibasaki, you are so lucky. No, you must treat us! Do you understand?!"

"Haha, don't be too happy yet. This is just a training match. When she achieves good results in the SP event, I will definitely celebrate it properly. I will invite everyone to join us then."

The last and most humble person was naturally Shibasaki, who had already recruited Fujimasa March into the team, and the SP event he mentioned was the abbreviation of the local event "Shining Star Series".

The Twinkle Series is a stage for horse racing ladies to show off their talents. It is divided into two series: central and local.

The central competition adopts the "Grade competition system", and the competition levels are divided into five categories: G1, G2, G3, OP (Open Tournament), and Pre-OP (Pre-Open Tournament, open tournament qualifiers).

The local area adopts the "Super Playstage", also known as the "SP system", which is also divided into five categories: SP1, SP2, SP3, SPOP, and Pre-SPOP.

In addition to the above 10 categories, there is also the "Debut battle", which is a "debut competition" held at both the central and local levels and calculated independently.

That is to say, the entire Shining Star event is divided into 12 categories.

According to the regulations of the organizing association of the "Shining Star Series", namely URA (Umamusume Racing Association), different horse girls require different conditions to participate in the corresponding competitions.

The specific algorithm is quite complicated, involving the horse girl's bloodline, performance, popularity, etc., and is very cumbersome.

For most people, different levels of competitions can be evaluated by the "popularity" of Uma Musume, or the very representative number of "number of fans".

For example, in the highest level G1 event at the central government level, generally only horse racing girls with at least 10 fans can participate.

Compared with central events, the requirements for local events are not that high. For example, the SP events that Shibasaki mentioned, even the highest-level local SP1 events, only require more than 1 fans.

For a small place like Hashima County, more than 1 fans are already a lot, as the entire county has a population of only about 5. In other words, the horse girls from Hashima County must be famous throughout Gifu Prefecture to have the opportunity to participate in SP events.

As a trainer, Kitahara knew about all these events, but he didn't care about the Fujimasa March mentioned by Shibasaki and his colleagues. He only thought about one thing.

...If it was Oguruma, it would be easy for him to get into the SP event...

Just as he thought of this, he saw through the telescope that at the training ground, at the starting line gate, another group of horse racing girls entered the gate.

One of them was the tall and slender girl with long silver-gray hair tied up in a bun.

(End of this chapter)