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On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

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I'm sorta surprised there's been little discussion regarding where exactly Umamusume races fall economically in that world. Um, given that Tanya is uh, intrigued(?)-interested in making money for retirement.

Like, are they the FIFA of that world? Do G1 races pull as much money as F1 drivers do?
Are we simply insulated from all that shebang because it's unnecessary?
I mean, don't hold it against me but I don't trust Tanya pov on their supposed renumeration, and while I'd probably agree that G3 or open ranked might not make retirement money, a part of me wants to believe Tanya hasn't actually done her research in this department and has perhaps equated the whole thing to something like Track and Field from her first life where she might even be right to probably dismiss it. (not that I know how much $ Olympians or track and fielders make)

Though, you know where I'm going with this. How much money do you think a G1/G2 racer actually makes per race? How much culture do they dominate? A joke calculation I ripped from 1 reddit user says a single Oguri Cap KFC meal would cost about 5.5mil yen which is like 35k $.
 
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I don't know very much Umamusume lore, but I always imagined top level uma racing to be an extremely popular sport to watch, on par with the World Cup and the Superbowl, with racers who place highly in those races taking home a respectable payday, with plenty of options to leverage their name and likeness for merchandising.
 
They have to rake in a ton of money if Tracen Academy can have an entire PMC on staff to casually shoo out reporters. That's not to mention the after race concerts or feeding the endless stomachs of the Umamusume themselves. It's probably a case of you aren't gonna make much as a unprofessional athlete but once you hit the consistent G1 big leagues you get plushies, advertising, and become a household name.
 
Apparently Uma racing is big enough to be a multi national sport that's closely tied to the culture of the countries.

I know in a couple of Uma stories, like Vodka's for example, the Uma makes plans with you, her trainer, to move to racing internationally.
 
Enough for Oguri Cap to support her own appetite. Can't say how much that is. Although on the opposite end the Trainers get paid in the Japanese equivalent to nickels given some screenshots from Reddit of the Trainers mentioning financial damages. Wouldn't be surprised if they get royalties through merch and the like an the Trainers get an even smaller fraction of that via the Academy whom in turn also probably are where the Umas' royalties money is probably coming from. Especially given Tracen Canonically has a PMC so they're getting big money from somewhere.

Although given how the honsez have impacted Society racing probably has supplanted most other sports in their dominance. Even if we ignore the ponystincts most other sports assume the players can't simply toss the ball accurately into the goal with it literally being a race to reach it. But one of the things from my daily Image Dump int he General Thread literally was a GIF of an Uma jumping the length of a basketball court just to dunk the ball. So even conventional sports end up being a race in another form. Rugby and American Football, given they double as combat sports, are more likely to resist this change but that's more likely to be because they become full combat sports instead given the point is decided by who grabs the ball and manages to launch it first rather then running it to the end zone. Baseball might also have survived given that's built more for Maths via trajectory calculations and swing timing then strength and speed but even then Umas might surpass that in some bullet time. Might end up with new fantasy sports as well. Maybe competitive swimming is a thing. Saying all that makes me think there's two different Olympics, the conventional one with the subdivisions of the two Olympics we Understand and the Uma version probably with their own two subdivisions given even an Uma missing their arms probably would be able to outswim a human.
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But, again, equine lust to Forest Gump means that foot racing is probably the biggestsport given a good chunk of Society is ponies. There's also the problem that normal sports equipment probably wouldn't survive Umas getting serious so one where the participants are the equipment, like foot racing, is one that wouldn't have to worry about needing to stop games to repeatedly replace the things.
 
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A safe assumption is take the irl prize pool win for each races. The relative price pool is:

'Less popular' G1: 100-120 million yen
G2: 50-60 million yen
G3: 30 million yen
Local: Depends on its level (usually equal to the graded races)

Big ones like the Arima Kinen or Tenno Sho can go far higher, from 200 million to 800 million.

Even with the trainer getting a 20% cut (based on irl jockey and trainer cut combined), its still a lucrative business for Umas, if we are only counting prize pools.

Add merchandising and advertisment deals, and the amount of money an Uma and their trainer can earn become far higher. Its why more materialistic Umas would want to race, its a relatively easy way to get rich (assuming the Uma is good at racing that is).

Cultural wise, Umas are a combination of both idols/artist and athletes. There is probably a global governing body (probably still called IFHA), but its probably not as big as FIFA, mostly because each country probably has its own series of Uma races and their own governing body for managing said series. And considering Uma racer status as celebrities and their natural beauty, its probably a common sight to see Uma fans being a unholy combination of musical artist fans and sport fans.
 
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