Satono Crown had actually been very curious about Anjing Zhen.
She had watched not only the Debut Race, but also Kitasan Black's second race, and had sat in on the family's Trainers as they reviewed and analyzed it.
The Trainers in the family all agreed that if the arrangement for the Debut Race had been deliberate, then Anjing Zhen was either a genius or had an extremely seasoned Trainer guiding him.
Perhaps his father, or perhaps some kind of mentor.
In any case, an ordinary young Trainer would never have dared to use that kind of Debut Race strategy.
And if the Debut Race had demonstrated Anjing Zhen's boldness, then the second race had demonstrated his meticulousness.
The strategy Kitasan Black used in that race was not complicated when laid bare.
She stayed close behind the opponent best able to control the race's pace, then accelerated a step earlier.
The issue was that the simpler a strategy was, the more difficult it actually became.
There were more than a dozen Horse Girls in a race, and their individual conditions could be worlds apart.
The circumstances of a race were also extremely complicated. Even the slightest change meant that, on the same track with the same group of runners, two races would never produce the same result. A tiny error could lead to vastly different outcomes.
Afterward, anyone who was not a complete amateur could point out this or that.
But those points only mattered if the judgment was made before the race.
Anjing Zhen had done it.
Before the race, he must have noticed Sato no Takarazuka's adaptability to the track and once again boldly had Kitasan Black follow her.
Then, with precision and effectiveness, he had instructed her in advance on when to make her final sprint. Almost exactly