Basically every mammal running on an uphill: conserve energy, somehow get through it

Gold Ship: Accelleration Zone   

#Umamusume

and it's not like he's doing this on a sprint or a mile or something, he's doing it at the Kikuka-shō and Tennō-shō (Spring), the two longest G1 races in Japan 
to be fair, evidently, Mejiro Mcqueen (his maternal hrandpa) had a heartrate of 20 bpm (I wish I could borrow even a fraction of that stamina right now  )
@OctaviaConAmore taking Gold Ship to Pikes Peak to set a 1hp hillclimb record that's truly unbeatable
@thepi he might honestly have fun considering just how interesting and windy that course is