Marco though, was pretty much paying no attention to how well Sakura was holding on. She was nothing more than a minor distraction - all his attention was focused solely on the run. Real horses might need to pay attention to their riders, but Marco wasn't a real horse.

With the way Marco was running at full-speed, he'd pulled ahead of the other horses. But unlike him, they had their riders to rein in their energy, and Marco didn't know enough about horse racing to know that he'd need that energy for the final stretch.