Chapter 567: Slacking off this time, trying again next time would be enough
[I said they should change jockeys this time. I never thought Gold Ship would lose this badly.]
[Looks like Gold Ship lost by four or five lengths this time.]
[A complete defeat!]
[Last year's spring Tenno Sho performance was awful too. I don't understand why they still put Koichi Sasaki on board this time.]
[The unbeaten record is gone. Now we'll have to see how the Takarazuka Kinen goes.]
[Poor Gold Ship.]
[I wonder if something went wrong. Gold Ship didn't seem to accelerate at all on the final straight.]
After the race ended, the comments under Gold Ship's page exploded.
Naturally, it was all more or less what Koichi had expected.
As for poor Gold Ship, he was resting in the stable. Everyone else was exhausted after the race, but he was clearly the one who had taken it easy. He had barely spent any energy on the final straight.
"Is Gold Ship all right?"
Once all of today's races were over, Ayano Aoe came to check on Gold Ship too.
"He's completely fine. The vet said he's perfectly healthy."
Koichi had come over as well.
Overall, everything had been within his expectations.
During the race, he could feel that Gold Ship was a little off his game, even unhappy. Later, he had tried asking him to accelerate, but unfortunately, Gold Ship simply refused.
As a jockey, he had no way to force a racehorse to speed up.
"As long as he's all right. Still, you've had a rough time again. Thank you."
Ayano Aoe was naturally referring to what was happening online.
They had now stumbled here two years in a row.
Whatever the case, there had to be a problem somewhere, and Koichi had