After hearing Kitahara's words, the point Hakki cared about most was not the length of the race, but how much prize money she could get from the races she could participate in.
"Kitahara-san! How much prize money can I get from the races I can participate in? A few million? Tens of millions?" Hakki asked eagerly after taking a few deep breaths. She had always been wholeheartedly dedicated to making money.
Kitahara was still pondering a series of complex matters. Hearing Hakki's question, she suddenly found it difficult to maintain a serious expression and laughed. "You're so concerned about this point. For short-distance races... the prize money is definitely not as high as for medium-distance races."
"G1 races like the Takamatsunomiya Kinen and Sprinters Stakes in short-distance racing have prize money of about one hundred million yen. They are among the G1 races with the lowest prize money. Any G1 race in the mile or medium-distance category has higher prize money than short-distance races," Kitahara said truthfully, also a little helpless. After all, short-distance races were indeed not valued in Japan. If Hakki really considered developing a career in short-distance racing... perhaps Hong Kong would be a good choice?
"Eh? Such a low status! No way, no way! I want to develop in the mile and medium-distance races!" Hakki's disgusted expression made Kitahara smile and shake her head. As expected, this horse girl's way of thinking couldn't be dealt with using the mindset of a normal horse girl.
"You say it so lightly! You don't consider reality at all, do you! First, honestly run the short-distance debut race. We'll train your stamina suitability slowly, there's no hurry," Kitahara said, getting up and patting off the grass, then went to the spot where Hakki had started running.
Hakki, who had been put down by Oguri Cap, scratched the back of her head and whispered to her, "Is Kitahara-san always like this?"
Oguri Cap came back to her senses from thinking about Hakki's weight and nodded. "Yes, Kitahara has many ideas, but most of them are considered bad ideas by other trainers. But in my opinion, they are very good. Does CuckooBird know the technique for exerting force on a dirt track?"
"Uh... I think I have some impression?" Hakki had only watched a small part of Cinderella Gray before, and it was for Oguri Cap. She really hadn't paid much attention to Kitahara. Hakki only remembered it was something like... using your toes to grab the sand and throw it out?
"Use the soles of your feet to grip the ground. That's what Kitahara taught me, and it works every time," she answered seriously.
Hakki went to the side to refuel, while Kitahara knelt on the grass, measuring the indentations Hakki had made when she started running with her fingers, filled with respect. She really was cut out for short-distance running. Her explosive power was very strong. The next step was to test her ability to break through in a group of horse girls. But to test this item... she would need to find some horse girls to help.
But at this moment, in a corner of the training grounds, a horse girl was staring at Hakki Byakku with a burning gaze, which could even be described as fanatical.
"Hmm? King Halo, where are you looking?"
"I seem to have seen a horse girl with the same aptitude as me. I'm going to take a look. Let's postpone the training for a while, I'll make up for it." King Halo watched the already seated Hakki in the stands with fanaticism and rushed out before her trainer could respond.
King Halo, who had clocked 53.7 seconds in the 1000-meter Ibis Summer Dash, became a new milestone for the 1000-meter race for Japanese horse girls. At the same time, the fastest furlong record in the history of the Japan URA was also broken here—a furlong in 9.6 seconds. The short-distance monster who had broken both the five-furlong and one-furlong records was now eyeing Hakki Byakku, who had just been "Bakushin-ing."
"Phew, this sports drink tastes so good. Can I have another one?" Hakki crushed the empty can and was about to reach out her dirty little hand to steal another one when a voice as cold as an iceberg came from behind her.
"Were you the one who was singing all the way on the track just now?" King Halo said expressionlessly. This look scared Hakki so much that the hair on her tail stood on end.
"Who are you?! I was just running randomly, did I... get in your way?" The other party seemed to have come with ill intentions. Hakki's vigilance was also very high. After the hair on her tail smoothed down, she stood behind Oguri Cap with great confidence.
"King Halo. I just saw you run and felt a sense of familiarity, very much like myself before my debut," she said. Although she couldn't make much of an expression, a hint of sincerity could be heard in her tone.
"Oh... so that's it... you like to lead?" Hakki finally peeked out from behind Oguri Cap, her soft ears twitching.
[King Halo]: Affection 25 [The image of her own lost youth]
"The straightaway is the track that horse girls should pursue!"
"Huh?" Hakki was stunned. She suddenly felt that a tragic, thick wall had separated the two of them. A horse girl who only had straight lines in her head must be a short-distance racer! Her, Hakki's, sights would not be set on the futureless short-distance races! Her sights were already set on the Dubai races with huge prize money! Millions of dollars in prize money from one race! Her hands would go soft!
"Straight and unadorned, without any gamesmanship, without the obstruction of turns, a pure contest of speed. This is the stage where a horse girl should stand!" King Halo said.
"Uh... then you might be mistaken. My goal is actually the mile and medium-distance races with higher prize money... I was just testing just now, yes! My trainer is right over there!" Hakki grabbed Oguri Cap's hand and pointed to Kitahara on the other side.
King Halo's ears drooped noticeably after hearing the answer. She thought she had found a colleague... but just her running style alone was something King Halo yearned for. Perhaps they could practice short-distance straight-line explosive escapes together in the future.
"I see... I'm sorry to have bothered you. I hope we can train and practice together in the future! On the straightaway."
Perhaps because she mentioned the straight line too many times, Hakki suddenly thought of a very fun little geography fact. So after a little thought, she asked, "I wonder if Senior King Halo knows something...?"
"Hmm? What is it?"
"From Tokyo to Washington, the straight line on a map is actually not the shortest distance."
"What?! Why isn't the straight line the shortest distance?!"
"But from the pole to anywhere is a straight line... so you can think of Tokyo as the pole. The lines drawn to a destination on a map are rarely straight lines." Hakki explained with a mischievous smile, putting on an act. "When the pole is spread out on a map, it becomes the straight line at the bottom of the map! Only the perpendicular line from a point to that edge is a true straight line. All other straight lines drawn on a map are curved! If you keep walking at the same angle on a map, you're actually walking a curve! A true straight line requires you to go around! A straight line is curved! A curved line is also a straight line! The turns on a racetrack are also straight lines!"
This was sophistry, but whether King Halo could understand it... that depended on her own luck.
After listening to Hakki's long-winded explanation, King Halo was full of question marks. Her worldview had been strongly impacted.
"Is... is this right? A turn is a straight line, and a straight line is a turn...?"
For King Halo, this was like physics ceasing to exist for humans. Not to mention King Halo, even my own brain is numb from this sophistry now.
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