Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 326 Chrysanthemum Appreciation (12): Bowl

Anyone who follows Uma Musume knows that the Eternal Club has a running tactic that leads the opponent, or confuses the opponent. That is, it uses phased acceleration to force the opponent to choose whether to accelerate as well.

This tactic is not unique to Yongshi, but is known to everyone in the horse girl world. It just depends on whether the trainer knows how to use it and whether the horse girl can master it and use it.

This tactic has a less elegant name.

"Cheating pace".

Simply put, at a specific moment, make your opponent think that you are not that fast, or not that slow.

While your opponent thinks you are not that fast, you can create enough distance between you and him. By the time he reacts, it will be too late for him to catch up.

If the opponent thinks he is not that slow, he will speed up, disrupt his rhythm and waste his energy. This is also the tactic that most people think Yongshi will use.

In order not to be deceived, the external conditions are training and competition experience. This kind of tactics is seen many times, it is easy to see through it, and it is difficult to be affected.

Intrinsic conditioning is a skill that is more difficult to train.

Countdown and judge speed.

The speed of the horse racing girls is average, and before the race you can investigate your opponents to find out their approximate speed.

By silently counting the seconds in your mind and visually judging distance marks or other landmarks, you can calculate your opponent's approximate speed at the moment.

This determines whether acceleration or deceleration is needed.

This ability was not specially trained when the Eternal Club was still a team, and it is only mentioned briefly now.

This ability requires that the body, especially the part of the brain that perceives time, be fully developed, which is difficult to achieve in the first year of the Classical Year and the Ancient Horse Year.

In this case, instead of forcing Oguruma and the others to practice, it is better to trust their intuition.

As for the horse girls outside the Eternal Club, this ability is even more lacking, and they all rely on intuition to judge things.

The horse racing ladies who thought they had "got cheated" also relied on their intuition.

And their instincts were right.

"...I'm really impressed by Xiao Haiwan," Tamamo Cross stared blankly at the screen, "I originally thought that she was just leading the way.

"As a result, she was almost halfway through her run when she suddenly started using this earliest tactic."

"If it wasn't used at this time, my opponents would have discovered it long ago."

Like Tamamo Cross, Inari Ichi is also very good at long distance racing. Even though his leading ability is not good, he has no problem judging the race situation.

“The fences on the left side of the sharp bend in Kyoto are very dense, and the small bay enters the bend, which is equivalent to disappearing except for the top of your head.

“If we suddenly lose our opponent, how can the horse girls behind us not be anxious?

“As a result, when you are anxious, your judgment is more likely to go wrong.

“I won’t talk about the earlier ones that were accelerated due to anxiety.

"We're speeding up now, there are still more than 1000 meters to go. We want to compete with Xiao Haiwan in pure endurance. They are really brave."

"…Inari, that's a bit too much."

Although she criticized him, Tamamo Cross agreed with Inariichi in her heart. However, she was not concerned about the other opponents in the small bay, "Forget about the other opponents.

“With the endurance of the little bay, it doesn’t matter whether you accelerate or maintain speed at that position.

“If anyone else catches up, they probably won’t have as much endurance as her.

“If I don’t catch up with her and she happens to pull away, then I’ll win immediately.

“The question is, Aldan and Oguruma…are they completely ignoring the tactics of the small bay?

"Uncle Kitahara certainly wouldn't tell them about the tactics of the small bay, so did they discover it on their own?"

Basically all the horse racing ladies who can understand the race are thinking about the same confusion.

Even Super Bay himself, who had deployed the tactics, was thinking about it.

...You are totally unmoved, Aldan, Oguri...

There was no need to look back. The ability to perceive the track that she had developed through blindfolding training, running side by side on the track, etc., made it easy for her to realize that her acceleration after passing the first corner did not cause any changes in her two most noteworthy opponents.

But she soon felt relieved.

Needless to say, with Aldan's intelligence, she can definitely judge her current condition by counting the seconds and measuring her speed.

Since she didn't speed up, it means she is confident of catching up.

And the little chestnut hat...

Xiao Haiwan's train of thought suddenly came to a halt. If it was before today, she was sure that Xiao Limao would have chosen to pursue in the final straight line.

This was not a tactic she had asked Kitahara about, but something she had come up with on her own.

She also asked and ran to Tamamo Cross, Inari Ichi, and many seniors and juniors to confirm this repeatedly.

What scares all opponents about Oguruma the most is his monstrous last leg.

If you want to win that kind of last-minute kick in a duel, there is only one best way.

Determined not to enter that kind of confrontation.

Or create enough distance between you so that she can't catch up no matter how hard she tries.

Or find a way to guide her to use up all her energy in advance so that she can't use the last kick at all.

As it stands now, the latter approach will not work.

Because Oguruma was still indifferent at the moment and was in the inner lane of the difference line.

This made Xiao Haiwan feel relieved, but also a little strange.

The reassuring thing is that as long as I find the right acceleration point and widen the gap as much as possible before my physical strength runs out, neither Oguruma nor Aldan will be able to catch up with me.

The strange thing is that there are twenty-four horse girls in this competition, and the positions in the supporting row are really too crowded.

Now, with the help of hearing and other senses, it can be confirmed that the opponent outside Ogurume is almost like a bowl, firmly holding her inside.

Indeed, Oguruma has the ability to switch positions like drifting.

I also mastered a unique ability to surpass in a straight line when practicing with good opera.

But facing the "bowl" at this moment, there is no chance of breaking out unless the "bowl" is smashed.

But if something is smashed, there is the risk of committing a foul.

and so……

Are you really stunned, Xiaoli...

No.

Absolutely not.

Whoever looks down on Oguri is the one who will be looked down upon.

She is just too naive and rarely thinks about anything, but it’s not that she doesn’t understand anything.

and so……

Did she have any perfect solution?

No, the acceleration point is almost here and I can’t be distracted.

Paying too much attention to my opponent and other things, I...can't win.

This is what Kitahara has repeatedly reminded me of.

So……

At the moment when Super Xiaohaiwan's eyes froze, the commentary voice echoing over the Kyoto stadium also became agitated.

"It accelerated and took action. The Super Bay, which had been leading, also started to accelerate.

“In the decisive position in Kyoto, the third turn uphill is completely against common sense… no, it is already common sense at the Triple Crown level. Super Cove started to accelerate on the uphill.

“Just like Representative Qian Ming did back then, Super Cove accelerated rapidly and climbed the ramp.

“Well, let’s take a look at our number one popularity.

“Little Chestnut Hat…still not moving.

"At the moment, Oguruma is very dangerous. She should have retained a lot of energy by sticking to the inner lane, but there are too many opponents outside.

"In the crowded leading team, some horse girls have already shown signs of losing speed, and there are more opponents outside Ogururo.

"If we don't consider breaking out at this point... ah, it's Aldan Mejiro.

"Mejiro Aldan and Super Bay chose the same tactic.

"Mejiro Altan also accelerated at Yodo-no-Zaka in the Kyoto stadium."

(End of this chapter)