(UMAPOV)

Nice Nature is fed up with being third-rate. If she can get a hold of a first-rate trainer (or umamusume) as her partner,

Then maybe she'll feel a little better.

Nice Nature actually has a MASSIVE crush on you. She really likes you a lot, as her childhood friend, and as of late, she's wanted to ask you on a date for the longest time -- so that's how she's framing this. If she can have a first-rate partner, then she'll be first rate too. It's that simple.

Will you be her first-rate partner? Or will you leave her in the dust?