Roan Group's Hill Training

It was the third week of September, just past eight in the morning.

Looking down from the top of the slope, Zepp could be seen waving his arms around like an idiot, while Rachel Ho, riding a roan horse beside him, turned her head with a somewhat helpless look and said something to him.

A gift from Grandma Takamura: a steep mountain slope about one hundred meters long, with a gradient of roughly 2.9%.

However—

Ever since the breaking-in work had been entrusted to Nishiken, the foals purchased at auctions had often been transferred elsewhere soon afterward, so the slope behind the farm was not actually used very often.

There was also the fact that bear incidents had worsened in recent years, making it difficult for the farm's current staff to go into the mountains and maintain it.

Since there was still plenty of time before his official debut as a racehorse, they decided to put this slope back into use, giving Mejiro Traveler outdoor hill and lateral movement training before gradually strengthening his ability to control his shoes through dirt training on the slope.

Even in an unfamiliar environment, the roan horse showed no stage fright and quickly adapted to the new grounds.

Over the past few days, after completing his hill training excellently, he had also done a little practice moving laterally to both sides.

At the beginning of training, Mejiro Traveler had displayed quite obvious resistance.

According to Rachel's feedback, he also occasionally dragged to the right.

So they asked Zepp to make some adjustments to his horseshoes, and today was the day to test the results.

"Start—"

With that, she raised the signal flag in her hand.

Of course, both the verbal cue and the gesture were really just for show.

The actual hill-training data collection