Work on Monday, rest on Tuesday.
With the workout gallop over, Koichi had finished his scheduled tasks for the week.
He had taken Gold Ship through his final training session that morning, then naturally spent the afternoon looking over the horses he would ride that week.
He had to admit that they were of remarkably high quality.
It also showed how many resources Saki Ikegami had committed to this week.
After meeting those horses, Koichi felt that his goal would be fairly easy to achieve.
Reach 100 wins at the Derby.
The next two most important things were the lucky draw and Gold Ship's starting stall draw.
Naturally, discussions had already begun online. The hottest topic surrounding the Derby was whether Koichi Sasaki could win consecutive titles.
Although Gold Ship was quite popular now, more people still favored World Ace.
Many believed Gold Ship had won the Satsuki Sho because of the track conditions.
Nobody else had dared to take the inside, but Koichi Sasaki had forced his way through. He had succeeded in the end, but World Ace had genuinely charged from last place all the way to the front.
Those two horses should have been evenly matched.
Yet the assessments of Gold Ship's earlier races had certainly been worse than those of his rival, and his various little issues left spectators feeling that his chances of also winning the Derby were slim.
But what they wanted to see even less was Koichi Sasaki securing consecutive titles.
For Shadai, however, they would profit either way. After all, Stay Gold was a horse they valued.
If Gold Ship won the Derby, Old Gold's stud fee would rise again.
There were simply too many stallions carrying on Sunday Silence's line now.
That also proved, in another way, that they had found