>There was once a lord who wished for a new horse and he asked his advisor where a fine specimen might be found. The advisor thought for a moment and then declared that he had an old friend who was expert in the qualities of horses and that he would send at once for his best animal.
>A letter soon arrived from his friend in the country announcing that he would soon be sending a black stallion as a gift to the lord. When the horse arrived however, it turned out to be a brown mare.
>‘You said your friend was an expert!’ the lord complained, ‘But he doesn’t even know the colour or sex of his own horses!’
>‘Ah, has he really come as far as that?’ the advisor sighed in admiration. ‘umamusume is patience game.’