At Tracen, an Expert at Doing Time

But season two of the anime never mentioned the Japan Cup, wanting to build up that atmosphere of triumph after adversity. Though it was probably because they didn't have the rights. ()

Anyway, that was a tangent. Before Japan's tracks became so unappealing that foreign entrants didn't even want to run on them, foreign horses would show up almost every time to wreck the Japanese horses.

And when Air Groove entered the Japan Cup, she encountered an interesting foreign stallion.

That stallion's name was Pilsudski.

Pilsudski and Fine Motion, Air Groove's roommate, were half-siblings with the same mother.

While in the paddock, this stallion caught sight of Air Groove.

Then she immediately whipped out her thing.

During the race that followed, Pilsudski ran against Air Groove in a state of extreme excitement. Apparently, in a horse's subconscious, outrunning the other party was another way of showing off masculine charm.

She ran with it swinging around, practically ready to mate right there.

Then she beat Air Groove by a narrow margin, leaving Air Groove in second place.

Plenty of people joked about it afterward. Someone said, "The jockey was whipping her from above, and she was whipping herself down below. How could she not be fast with two whips?" For a while, this victory by a dual-whip wielder straight out of Huyan Zhuo's playbook became a racing-world anecdote.

But that stunt nearly gave Air Groove a fear of males.

Afterward, the foreign horse Pilsudski stayed in Japan for breeding. However, her breeding results were so poor that she never got a chance with Air Groove.

Since Air Groove was bred to that ill-tempered old American hooligan Sunday Silence, people joked that she would rather go to an old American thug than this Irish prince.

*I wonder what sort of Uma Musume