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On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

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Tanya Shirogane's part of the Golden Generation eh? So from 1997 as two year old newcomers to 2000 at most, hmmmmmmm. Will be interesting to see what races she'll win. (Stay Gold started at December 1996 and ended his career at December 2001)

Image Shirogane performs better at European Races as the ground is familiar to her. Tanya winning the l'Arc out of spite to the François and the trouble they cause her.
 
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"Kiiing!" A cheerful voice sounded through the classroom, followed shortly by its origin, a small umumusume with pink hair, of all things, and unexpectedly shorter than Shirogane. "I found you!"

"Haru? But you're supposed to be in a different classroom…"

"Eeeh?!" the small uma rubbed her fists against her temples, her face the picture of confusion. "But we're roommates! I thought that meant we were supposed to be in the same room!"

"In the dormitory, Haru-chan!" King Halo sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "The classroom you're supposed to go to is based on your schedule."
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Whoever decided to put King with Haru must be prescient. Considering KH's irl career, Haru must be a source of great encouragement until the final day.

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King Halo looked flabbergasted for a moment, before shaking her head slightly and walking over to her roommate, pulling the shorter girl's schedule out of her pack and explaining it to her.
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King Halo start as the mom figure begins. Taking care of Haru must be a literally test run of the experience and learning to deal with frustrating situations.

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"Are those common in Japan?" And that was Grass Wonder, looking like she was missing context and inordinately unhappy about it.

"I was not aware street racing was that prevalent a phenomenon," Shirogane admitted. Another thing to look into. "I was running on the road because I was running food deliveries for my family's restaurant."
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Grass being uber weeb and wanting to consume all Japanese traditions and customs even thought she's American. Though, I think Jungle Pocket in the movie hinted that they were doing some street running I think, before she got inspired and moved to actual JRA races.

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"Are you alright, Matikanefukukitaru-san?" Dober asked, hurriedly making her way over to the fallen uma.

"Why have you forsaken me, Shiroaki?!" Matikanefukukitaru cried, not bothering to get up from her prone position. "Fortune was supposed to be in my favor today!"

Was her name supposed to be two names? Ah…eighteen characters. Another oddity in this world.
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Her name is supposed to be the first syllable of each word in a phrase/sentence I think.

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Now if only Stay Gold would stop staring at her.
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Stay Gold has a thing for small horse if I remember.

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"Wah!" Tsurumaru jumped in the air, making Shirogane duck out of the way of a flailing limb. "Where did you come from?!"

"...Behind you." What exactly was she supposed to say to that?

"I didn't hear you at all?!"
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I wonder if that would be a quirk of her irl counterpart. Extremely quiet and can sneak up on you.

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Shirogane judged her own odds of achieving the so-called Triple Crown as low, if not minimal. She could tell her classmates were largely faster than her, and with at least a year's worth of conditioning, she doubted they would tire themselves out on just a medium race by the time of their classic year. Perhaps the Kikuka Sho could be within her grasp, with the longer race giving her an edge.
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Gonna give Seiun Sky a run for her money. Her little trick at the Kikuka Sho irl might not work as well on Shiro. I wonder if Hana might run her in Long races.

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"Man, this class is pretty strong," Tsuyoshi-san mumbled under her breath. "What would prez do?"
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Ah Tsuyoshi, a body fit for running but not healthy enough to go the distance.

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Even clearly tired, her chestnut classmate's closing speed was still formidable, so Shirogane side-stepped into her path, cutting off her passing lane.
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I wonder if some warhorse heritage gives her body special characteristics. I assume the hypothetical irl horse would have a warhorse and a race horse parent. Warhorse are built for endurance and the race horse built for speed.
 
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I wonder if some warhorse heritage gives her body special characteristics. I assume the hypothetical irl horse would have a warhorse and a race horse parent. Warhorse are built for endurance and the race horse built for speed.
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Stamina sparks and speed sparks with the unique WAR spark that gives guts and stamina instead of the normal URA FINALE spark
 
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Sky was in her way, but had not fully sealed off the inner rail, so she pushed forwards, accelerating into the turn.

"Wha–?!"

A moment later Shirogane was past Seiun Sky and in the lead for the first time today, pushing herself back up to her top speed as she made it back onto the returning straight.
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Some one is eventually going to give her a grim reaper costume as a joke only for her to wear it during a Halloween themed race.
 
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Shirogane doesn't seem to be pushing herself that much. It seems that she could treat even medium-distance tracks as sprints, going all-out right out of the gate, but she doesn't even experiment with that. We see that she still isn't nearly as tired out as her peers, despite running 15 races in a row. I don't know if she's planning to save that strategy for her debut race, or is so locked into the conventional strategy of pacing herself for a final sprint at the end, but I want to see her try to exploit her monstrous stamina.

Maybe her trainer can take a weekend and do an endurance run test until Shirogane can't run anymore.
 
She feels like she's specced for late surger or end closer. Take it slow and easy and then go fast.
 
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Teio is from a earlier generation though. Her Classic run was in 91 while the Golden Generation was in 98.
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The anime portrays Teio in the same year and races as the Golden Generation

It's just a thing like how Rudolf has been school president for 40+ years and the eternal 17 high school student that is the fossil known as Maruzensky

Just roll with it. Even cygames went 'dont think about it' when people brought it up
 
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One of them was apparently Mejiro Dober's sister, Mejiro Bright, though oddly enough they did not refer to each other as twins, despite being in the same year, while the second one was an uma with reddish-brown hair and green ear socks named Silence Suzuka. Neither of them seemed to notice the newcomer to the class, the former sitting next to her sister, while the latter sat by the window and stared out wistfully.
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Suzuka unconsciously emulating typical anime highschool protagonist. Truly, the most protagonist Uma of her generation.

Also, would be a fun talk when Shiro realizes that Dober and Bright while in the same clan, are not sisters (due to not having the same dam). Probably gonna weird out Shiro a bit when she hears how the other Mejiro girls are related to one another.

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The anime portrays Teio in the same year and races as the Golden Generation

It's just a thing like how Rudolf has been school president for 40+ years and the eternal 17 high school student that is the fossil known as Maruzensky

Just roll with it. Even cygames went 'dont think about it' when people brought it up
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While time is wishy washy, the game and other spinoff materials actually do try to line up their events with irl events. The main anime was the only one that deviates that (e.g. Pasa running in the Derby, Spe and Grass tied, Teio and McQueen era happening after Golden gen even tho they are the gen after Oguri).

It's why I generally prefer following the game or spinoff (CinGrey and StarBlo) timeline since they are more consistent than the main anime.
 
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