Zhou Yuang took a quick look at Bourbon's stats, then prepared to race.
He tapped Race and entered the turn, only to find an ordinary race waiting for him.
Zhou Yuang blinked at the all-too-familiar screen, then entered the race.
Just like a normal mobile-game training run, it had thrown in a heap of middle-distance runners and a few random extras. Even if Miss Hayakawa, whom players accused of making blind predictions, came over and declared victory certain, Bourbon had no chance of losing.
[Invincible Lord of Seaside]: Weren't we promised a bunch of foreign runners?
Why was it still following the normal game format? There wasn't a single foreign runner!
[Rice Cake Fatty]: Aren't you jumping the gun? Think back to the earlier training runs.
[Gray Coat Godzilla]: You mean... a legendary race?
Remembering the surprise entrants in earlier training runs, and the chaotic lineup in McQueen's, many of the Uma Musume immediately perked up.
Sure enough, after Bourbon finished the race and struck her G1 victory pose, a red warning banner and an exclamation mark filled the screen.
[Surprise entrant event triggered!]
A petite shadow stood amid a bank of purple mist.
As the darkness faded from her figure, an Uma Musume in a blue-and-white Victory Outfit came into view.
[Invincible Lord of Seaside]: Huh?!
[Rice Cake Fatty]: Teio?
Who else could it be but Tokai Teio?
In the first Japan Cup after its promotion to an international G1, she had beaten the United Kingdom's European representative and Derby Winner, two outstanding French G1 winners, Australia's representative and two-time crown winner, and an American-owned winner of the British Derby!
What was more, it had been run on a Heavy Track. Tokai Teio had defeated those world-class champions and set a record that would stand unbroken for