At the current level of this world, it was simply impossible to judge a Horse Girl's talent before her debut.
Horse Girls possessed a strong "group-oriented nature."
In racing terms, when training alone, if there were not enough Horse Girls running alongside them, or if the difference in ability was too great, they could not fully display their true racing level.
Likewise, some Horse Girls whose training results appeared entirely unremarkable would reveal completely different traits once they entered the intense environment of an actual race.
Take Symboli Rudolph, for example. Both in training and in races, she possessed the trait known as "Eternal Horse Length."
She habitually only passed the leader by a single horse length, then relied on her overwhelming strength to maintain that lead until the end, winning with considerable ease.
She could pull this off in most races.
This made her training look as though she was not putting in much effort, while her races were consequently dubbed by fans as "the least suspenseful" and "the dullest to watch."
Yet because of this, she had lost races before.
T.M. Opera O was similar. In most of the races she won, her lead was never large. Like Symboli Rudolph, once she had overtaken her opponent, that was enough—she would never waste an extra bit of stamina.
Oguri Cap and Daiwa Scarlet, on the other hand, were the exact opposite of Symboli Rudolph and T.M. Opera O. They were the kind of Horse Girls who "had no idea how to conserve energy."
They were somewhat better during regular training, but they still looked like they were giving it everything. The Horse Girls training alongside them often could not withstand that pressure and were easily left far behind.
Once they entered a race, they would fall into an unusual