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9. Determined

Recently, Tranquility on Sunday felt a little strange about her body.

"I always feel tired every time I wake up, as if I did some strenuous exercise in a dream." She complained to herself from the bottom of her heart.

But Tranquility on Sunday didn't take this to heart.After winning the San Philip Stakes, her trainer signed her up for the next game, the Kentucky Derby, the Santa Anita Derby, which was held at the Santa Anita Park Racecourse just like the San Philip Stakes, with a long distance It is 1800 meters. If there is no accident, she will set foot on the Kentucky Derby track in early May after winning this derby.

"I must challenge the Triple Crown of the United States!" The background of Tranquility on Sunday can only be described as mediocre. Before winning the San Philips Championship, there was no one in the West Coast Treyson Academy who believed that this generation could compete for the honor of the Triple Crown of the United States. Her name—but until now, although the name of Tranquility on Sunday will be mentioned by everyone, basically everyone at the West Coast Treyson College believes that the horse girl who is most likely to win the title of "Triple Crown" this year is in the east. coastal.

"Easy Goer..." Sunday Tranquility said the guy's name from the bottom of her heart.One of the best rookie horse girls in the US Eclipse Awards last year, won two first-level victories in the Cowdin Stakes and the Champagne Stakes.Compared to Sunday Tranquility, who is now just a G2 heavy reward winner, Easy Goer is much more dazzling.

"But I don't think I'm not her opponent." Sunday Tranquility didn't have the habit of admitting defeat before the game, "No matter what, try to get the right to participate in the Kentucky Derby first."

After washing up, she had a simple breakfast, changed into sports clothes, and planned to rush to the training ground to start preparing for the Santa Anita Derby early.

Zhou Taian didn't know what Sunday Tranquility was doing. After finishing his breakfast, he sent Xiaoli Hat and Brand New Glory to the research institute. After returning to the apartment, Zhou Taian used his computer to search for past game videos of Sunday Tranquility.

"Although Ma Niang's running mode is different from that in the dream world, I can figure out some of her quiet habits on Sundays from her real-world game videos, and maybe I can use them in the following games."

That's what Zhou Tai'an said, and he did the same.He spent the next few days studying Sunday Serenity.At least that's what counts as a "Sunday Tranquility Professional Graduate Degree".

These research young trainers didn't shy away from Chestnut hats and brand new brilliance, either, so the two horse girls knew that he was recently studying a high-profile horse girl at Treyson College on the west coast.

"I don't want to participate in the US Triple Crown either. There's no need for Tai'an to study opponents like this?" Xiao Limao couldn't hold back, and complained one morning.

"Huh? This is not for Xiaoli's research." Zhou Tai'an raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Before Lu Duo asked me to comment on this year's classic generation. The talent is not as good as your generation, so I refused. I have nothing to do, so I decided to take Sunday Tranquility as the observation object, to see if there will be any problems with my judgment of her."

"So it's an attempt to entertain yourself?" Xinxin Guanghui understood.

"That's right, that's right." Zhou Tai'an grinned, "Although these horse girls and trainers at West Coast Treyson College think that Sunday Tranquility has no chance, I feel that she will surprise these guys."

"Surprise people... Is it the same as me in the first half of last year?" Xiao Limao seemed very interested in this.

"I can't guarantee it, but I think it will be so." Tai'an Zhou shrugged, "The schedule for the US Triple Crown is too tight. I think the Bemont Championship will be very difficult for her, but I am very optimistic about the first two championships." she."

"So confident?" Xinxin Guanghui was quite surprised. "When I listened to the discussion of everyone in the research institute, I was optimistic about Easy Goer on the east coast."

Zhou Tai'an shook his finger: "Guanghui, just tell them, I judge that Sunday Tranquility can at least win the first Kentucky Championship."

"Okay, I'll talk to them—if next time we talk about this year's American Triple Crown." Xin Guanghui nodded slightly, expressing his understanding.

Zhou Tai*** used the research results during this period in the dream world at night.

"Zhou, your ability to adapt is really good. It's only been a few days for Sunday Tranquility to get used to the saddle change." Wei Dingham's trainer's assistant looked at the young man sitting firmly on Sunday Tranquility's back, and couldn't help but praise, "I believe You are definitely a top rider in Japan too."

"It's been less than three years since I debuted." Zhou Tai'an held the rein in one hand and waved his free hand with the other, "I feel that I'm still a little far from being a real top rider."

"It doesn't matter. I believe Zhou and Zhou Ning can get the results that top riders need." The assistant smiled confidently.

"With your good words, I will work hard on the field." Zhou Tai'an nodded seriously.At the same time, Sunday Tranquility, who was riding, nodded again and again, as if he could understand the content of the communication between the two.

……

Sunday Tranquility in the dream world is on the same schedule as the real world, and it's also the Santa Anita Derby, a prequel to the Kentucky Derby.However, because Sunday Tranquility in the dream world was stabbed in the back by Zhou Taian, the popularity of Sunday Tranquility in the dream world is not high.Many media reporters and experts believe that the biggest favorite in the Santa Anita Derby is Flying Europe, which kicked off Zhou Tai'an and replaced it with an American first-line rider, while Sunday Tranquility, which has weakened on the saddle, is only the third most popular in the forecast.

"There is less than a week before the Santa Anita Derby. I must win this Santa Anita Derby with Sunday Tranquility and get a ticket for the Kentucky Derby!" Riding on Sunday Tranquility Zhou Taian, who was doing morning exercises, was talking to himself in his heart.

For the entire camp of Tranquility on Sunday, the Santa Anita Derby for the second time cannot be missed.The same is true for Zhou Taian.He was put on the position of the main rider by Yoshida Yoshiya as the horse owner. If Sunday Tranquility fails to get a ticket for the Kentucky Derby, then the blow to Yoshida Yoshiya is obvious.

"If you can't get into the American Triple Crown, it will have a great impact on the value of the stallion. After all, I recommended Sunday Tranquility, so I must let his value be reflected." Thinking of this, Zhou Taian's heart became heavier.

10. Fight to Fame

April 4.During the day, Zhou Taian followed Xiao Limao to the research institute and met with Dr. Grace.She also knew that Zhou Tai'an was paying attention to Sunday Tranquility recently.

"To be honest, I think that Tranquility on Sunday can't really be the opponent of Easy Goer," Dr. Grace said, "If you haven't watched the Easy Goer game on Zhou, then I recommend you to watch it, and you will understand after watching it. How big is the gap between Serenity and Easy Goer."

"People have double standards." Zhou Taian shrugged, "I support Sunday Tranquility, so I will tell you that 'the past games are just the past. win'."

"If it were a weaker horse girl who challenged Xiao Limao, your tone would become 'Xiao Limao will not lose to opponents who are weaker than you', right?" Dr. Grace rolled his eyes.

"Almost." Zhou Tai'an admitted readily, "Anyway, today is the day to decide whether Sunday Tranquility can participate in the Kentucky Derby, let us wait and see."

"Okay, let's watch the live broadcast together later?" Dr. Grace raised his eyebrows and offered the invitation.

Zhou Tai'an nodded: "Okay, I guess on Sunday Tranquility will easily defeat the opponent and get the ticket."

"I guessed the same way." Dr. Grace's mouth twitched, "Why don't you guess how many horses you can win? I guess within 3 horses, after all, you only won more than one horse in Feifei Europe this time. Not too much."

"Then I can only guess that Tranquility will win a landslide victory on Sunday." Zhou Tai'an smiled, "Then let me say more, 10 horses."

"G1 won by a big margin?" Dr. Grace's eyes widened, "Isn't Zhou your guess too outrageous?"

"Anyway, if you don't bet on anything, it doesn't matter if you exaggerate or speculate." Zhou Tai'an explained.

"Hmm..." Dr. Grace couldn't refute this.

At night, Zhou Taian was very stressed before falling asleep. "It would be better not to watch the game during the day if I knew it earlier." He muttered secretly.

During the day, Sunday Tranquility did not lose. On the contrary, she won quite beautifully. Even with this performance alone, West Coast Treyson College internally reached "only Sunday Tranquility can do it against Easy Goer." This consensus.

"In the dream world, I have to work harder, not only to make Sunday Tranquility win, but also to win beautifully!" Zhou Tai'an cheered himself up and closed his eyes.

After falling into the dream world, Zhou Tai'an found himself riding on the back of Sunday Tranquility, bumping and stepping onto the dirt track of Santa Anita Park Racecourse again.

The Santa Anita Derby to participate in this time is 100 meters longer than before, but Zhou Taian is not worried that Sunday Tranquility will run out of energy.

"Sunday's quiet performance during the day is really shocking. I just need to run according to that running method and I will definitely get satisfactory results." He said to himself.

……

Yoshida Zenya and his party sat in the horse chair area of ​​the Santa Anita Park Racecourse.Several people are quite nervous now. There is still one month left before the Kentucky Derby. If this Santa Anita Derby cannot be won, it is basically confirmed that Tranquility will miss the first game of the American Triple Crown on Sunday.If that happens, the value of Sunday Serenity's already modest stallion will be greatly reduced.

"We must win... Zhou Jun." Yoshida Zenya could hear his own heartbeat now, as if his heart was about to jump out of his throat.Although it didn't cost much to buy Sunday Tranquility, the founder of Shetai Ranch would still be very distressed if something went wrong.

They are not the only ones in the horse chair area, there are also owners of other horses participating in the same race.

On Sunday, Tranquility went ahead and overturned the G2 heavy reward, resulting in only the second most popular in this game, and the No.1 spirit was taken away by Flying Europe.

Yoshida Yoshiya could hear what those horse owners were discussing with him, and these horse owners didn't care about Yoshida Yoshiya's "overhearing" and chatted about their views on the next Santa Anita Derby.

Yoshida Yoshiya just listened for a while, and noticed that these people were basically not optimistic about Sunday Tranquility, and the reasons were similar-the change of saddle rider was considered to be a major weakening of Sunday Tranquility.Flying Continental has replaced a stronger rider, and the gap between the two horses has widened.

"It's really underestimated, Zhou Jun." Yoshida Zenzai squinted his eyes, looking at the young man sitting on the back of Sunday Ning Jing with a calm demeanor.

Coincidentally, the rider on the No. 1 Air Flying Continental Saddle this time is Valencia - in other words, this Santa Anita Derby last week Tai'an and Valencia exchanged partners and competed again.

Valencia did not underestimate Zhou Taian this time, he has decided to mark Sunday Tranquility in this race: "I will not give Asians any chance, I will prove that there is nothing wrong with my riding in the last race!"

After all, if he loses - Zhou Tai'an can beat Warren Suller regardless of whether he is riding on Sunday Tranquility or Flying Continental, then it is self-evident.As a first-line rider in the United States, Valencia absolutely does not accept this conclusion.

And Zhou Taian, who had seen how easy Sunday Tranquility won in the daytime, did not intend to find another way: "I just need to follow the daytime running method to widen the gap. If I have to improve, I only have to choose the route."

……

A few minutes later, Zhou Taian and Sunday Tranquility stepped into gate 4. There were only 6 horses participating in this Santa Anita Derby, so Zhou Taian did not think it was a problem to choose a seat.

"Crack!" The horse gate opened, and the young man who had been prepared for a long time began to push the horse. After confirming that he would not be caught between the opponents of the No. 3 and No. 5 gates, Zhou Taian simply slowed down the movement of pushing the horse. Let Sunday Tranquility run with your temper.

Although Tranquility on Sunday has a bad temper, after being cured several times by Zhou Taian and his assistants during training, he is now considered obedient.Although the guy on the saddle didn't give specific instructions, he didn't choose to run to the front of the team in one go. Instead, he stayed behind the fleeing horse as he did when he won the only victory. Enjoying the treatment of two escaped horses giving him a broken wind.

Zhou Tai'an felt the peeping of Warren Sona behind him, he didn't care, and even stroked Sunday Tranquility's mane when he was free, so that he could calm down and not be disturbed by the feeling of peeping behind him.

11. Big difference

At this time, Zhou Taian and Sunday Tranquility have entered the final corner.Both Mr. Bolg and Houston/Houston, who were running ahead, were tired at this time.

When Feifei Oulu and Valencia stared at Sunday Ning Jing and Zhou Taian, the latter was also marking two escaped horses.Obviously Houston and Mr. Bolg's mental strength is not enough to fight Mark for such a long time.

"Both Mr. Bolg and Houston are out of step." Zhou Tai'an noticed this for the first time, and then he stopped hesitating and hit a cue whip while keeping his right hand pushing, "Since the two of you My physical strength has already collapsed, so hand over the front position to me!"

After Sunday Tranquility got the cue whip, his speed increased immediately. Although he didn't increase his speed to the highest because of the curve, he still easily surpassed Mr. Bolg and Houston and came to the end of the team. ahead.

Zhou Taian glanced behind him by taking advantage of the terrain of the curved road section.He noticed that Valencia and Flying Continental were still suppressing their instinct to sprint forward in their original positions.

"Aren't you going to speed up now?" The young man complained from the bottom of his heart, "If you don't speed up within ten seconds, then you don't need to speed up anymore."

After Tranquility surpassed Mr. Bolg and Houston on Sunday, Zhou Taian didn't make a single move, relying on Tranquility's own mood on Sunday to successfully widen the gap with the opponent behind him.

"Tranquility on Sunday! Enter the final straight with the advantage of 4 horses!" The on-site commentator glanced at it and made his own judgment, "Isn't Flying Europe going to speed up?!"

Yoshida Zenya has already stood up at the table of related people.He swears by his decades of experience in watching games that Sunday Tranquility now has an absolute advantage, and even seems to be able to handle it with ease.

"It seems that Zhou Jun is really not lying. Sunday Tranquility will definitely become an excellent racehorse." He pressed his chest, as if he was holding his heart to prevent it from jumping out.

Although Valencia looked normal, he was actually quite anxious now.On Sunday, Tranquility obviously picked up the speed completely, and the response was also quite good. It seems that it will continue to speed up after entering the final straight.

"No, you have to let Flying Oulu increase its speed! Otherwise, there will be no chance at all!" After realizing this, Valencia quickly raised his whip and waved it vigorously.

But now Zhou Taian doesn't need to care about Warren Sullah's actions anymore.At the moment when he entered the final straight, the young man was in a daze, as if he had returned to the time when Kasamatsu was riding an Oguri hat.

"Get rid of all the opponents, enter the final straight and start sprinting first, no opponent can keep up."

This thought flashed by, and he instinctively whipped again, pushing the horse with both hands more vigorously: "Don't let people catch up with us!"

Sunday Tranquility seemed to be able to realize his thoughts from the strength of his partner on the saddle, the frequency of limb swing became faster, and the distance between him and his opponents behind him became larger and larger.

"Tranquility walks alone on Sunday! 5 horses! 6 horses! Who else can catch up with him?!" The on-site commentator questioned.

Yoshida Yoshiya, on the horse owner's seat, had already raised his hands: "Come on!"

He wished that Zhou Tai'an and Sunday Tranquility would cross the finish line in the next second.

……

With the last 100 meters left to the finish line, Zhou Taian realized that he could only hear Sunday's peaceful hooves, so he gripped the reins with both hands, turned his head and glanced back.

"All opponents turned into dots..." The young man knew exactly what that meant.

"It's so strong, it's quiet on Sunday." He bit his lip, turned around and continued to push the horse vigorously, "Then make the horse's height difference bigger! Try to get a high popularity in the Kentucky Derby!"

Contrary to Zhou Tai'an, Valencia doesn't push the horse at all now - although Flying Continental has come to No.2, it seems that there may be a chance to work hard to narrow the gap with Sunday Tranquility.

"There's no need to struggle anymore, and I can't win anyway." That's what he thought.

"Sunday is quiet! The humiliation of the San Fela championship is washed away! Is it really a gap in the saddle?!" Accompanied by the questions of the on-site commentator, Zhou Taian and his partner put aside all their opponents and crossed the line first.

"Yes!" Yoshida Yoshiya almost jumped up, "This way we will have tickets to the Kentucky Derby!"

"Good, good, good!" The fellow experts were also quite excited, "If we can get good results in the Kentucky Derby, there will be no problem in introducing Sunday Tranquility into domestic breeds! That will be much cheaper than buying retired G1 horses into breeds !"

"If Sunday Tranquility can win a few more games... Maybe it can really take over the northern flavor." At the moment of witnessing Sunday Tranquility crossing the line in Malaysia, this idea appeared in Yoshida Yoshiya mind.

Because Sunday Tranquility wasn't even a big reward horse when he bought it, now that he won G1 with Zhou Tai'an, the deal is already quite a bargain.

"If you win the Kentucky Derby..." Yoshida Yoshiya thought of this, shaking his head again and again, "This dream is a bit too big. Now it's just a preliminaries win of the Kentucky Derby, which is far from winning the Kentucky Derby far away."

……

On the other side, after Zhou Taian accepted the interview with the on-site host, Wei Dingham's trainer's assistant came up to help Zhou Taian dismount.

However, Zhou Taian, who had won by a big margin just now, was excited, waved his hands, and declined the assistant's help, his legs tensed up, exerting strength——

"Oh!" the assistant exclaimed.Because he saw Zhou Tai'an jumped off the horse.

After landing steadily, Zhou Taian raised his arms high, clenched his fists with both hands and showed a confident smile.

"It's really yours." The assistant patted the young man's shoulder with a smile.

Waking up the next day, Zhou Taian rubbed his eyes, and could hear his heart pounding.

"How can this work." He shook his head lightly, complaining to himself, "It's just a Kentucky Derby skirmish, and I'm so excited after waking up. If I can win the Kentucky Derby in the dream world, I'll be so excited to wake up You have to slow down for a while."

12. Entrustment by the Secretariat

Logically speaking, Zhou Tai'an himself had nothing to do on this day.

He planned to send Xiaoli Hat and Brand New Radiance to the research institute, and then return to the apartment to simply hang out for a day.But just as the young trainer returned to the apartment, made a pot of coffee and was about to watch TV to pass the time, he received a message from Dr. Grace—"The president of the secretariat asked you to go to her place."