@MDHWrites@TheSafeAnnaAnon@OpaluVA How is Falco the loser? I get the other 2 for Top Gun & Curren Chan (which are both dumb for them too imo) but Falco is literally called the "Silence Suzuka of the sand" & has 19 wins out of their 34 races. More than a 50% win rate
@kensethology@palouver It also doesn't help that some of his fans have the racecraft iq lower than a fucking q-tip. See some of them blaming Buescher for the accident a few days ago like "you left a gap" yea that's cool but if you're gonna take the gap know how to hold a line afterwards.
@syate_@KrisUmasimp NHK Mile Cup & Mile Championship are usually more chill for me.
It's the Yasuda Kinen that kicks me in the balls most of the time with Vodka deciding to unlock all 7 of her G1 wins at once to stop my Uma that's a rank or 2 higher than her
@LESBIANSFORLADY@mamechinue The worst is the Gold Ship x McQueen shippers imo. If they only play the game or watch the anime & don't pay attention to any of the irl horse details then more power to them 💀
【Narita Brian: Racing Against His Shadow—A Crown So Heavy It Breaks the Head That Wears It】
The stretch of the 1994 Japanese Derby.
A dark bay body, neck sunk low, driving its center of gravity straight ahead, wearing a white shadow roll (a fluffy noseband that blocks some of a horse’s lower field of vision to help it focus).
With every lengthening stride, the margin grows.
Five lengths is merely the final accounting.
There’s a menace in Narita Brian’s motion that numbers can’t capture.
Three decades on, his support hasn’t dimmed—and it isn’t nostalgia. Even now, the footage testifies that “what’s strong is strong”.
In the Japan Racing Association’s fan poll for the “Great Horses of the 20th Century,” the top spot went to Narita Brian.
Yes, the 1980s and ’90s were years when JRA racing standards climbed sharply, and some argue that Thoroughbreds from that era wouldn’t stack up in today’s game.
And yet, in writers’ ballots he still commands affection.
Why do those who witnessed that time continue to believe in Narita Brian’s strength?
Let’s reconstruct his story from the record.🧵1/n
@furmerly Lowkey could toss Narita Brian in there too. Fits the first criteria unfortunately
In Star Blossom other umas view her as a literal monster, her own sister even being afraid her
In Hayahide's story in game she thinks Brian doesn't care about her when Brian does care about her