Normally, club yearling open houses were held around September in the autumn.
By this point in the latter half of their yearling year, the physical qualities of early-maturing horses had begun to stand out. Even yearlings that had failed to fill their subscriptions during the spring offering due to relatively weaker pedigrees or physiques could roughly reveal their future development.
Conversely, if the yearling open house was moved forward to the current spring season, even professional conformation analysts and stable staff who spent every day with the horses would find it difficult to see much of value.
For the club organizing the offering, the racing fans participating in it, and even the yearlings themselves whose subscriptions had not yet filled, holding an open house at this time was entirely unnecessary.
As for why, knowing all that, they had still scheduled the open house for the earlier spring—
Including the newly added Hibae and Hina, the club's first-year lineup had achieved the remarkable feat of every horse being fully subscribed on the very first day.
Starting from the night Poetic Banquet won the Forget-Me-Not Stakes—the same day the club's corporate racehorse owner application was approved—they began receiving an astonishing number of membership applications from around the world almost immediately after midnight.
Despite all the preparations they had made beforehand, the club's official website still kept crashing intermittently the next day because of the overwhelming number of visitors.
The total amount raised through the first-year fractional offering would not increase accordingly; it remained the number set from the start. Still, for the directors, being able to so directly sense the market's interest was undoubtedly good news.
Incidentally, over the past few days, they had unsurprisingly heard complaints from John and Jasper along the lines of, "We should have tried harder at the