Orange Skills

The first two icons here are for Speed and Acceleration, respectively. The best are the ones with good activation times and long durations. For example, compare these two skills: They both increase Speed, and both by the same amount. However, Beeline Burst only increases your Speed for 0.9 seconds, while Professor of Curvature increases it for 1.8 seconds.

Speed skills won’t do anything if you’re not at top Speed, and Acceleration skills won’t do anything if you are at top Speed.

The third type of skill is a lane change skill, which increases the speed at which the uma changes lanes. Lane changes are outward in the last leg, and inward otherwise.

The fourth type improves your starts. The white version isn’t very impactful, but the golden version is very good and used very often, especially for Front Runners. There’s also a purple version that makes your starts worse, which Gold Ship can get access to by winning Takarazuka Kinen twice.

The fifth type affects Vision, which doesn’t actually do anything (unless you’ve had your vision debuffed) due to the hard cap on vision being set at the same distance as the default.