I don't get why they're going to all this trouble. Doesn't the guy just need to make physical contact for like ten seconds? Have him talk to her at the starting line. Hell, make the "finish line" of the race shaking his hand.
I have this theory where the rat trapped her in a contract, and the only way to break out of it is to trap innocent humans in her own contracts. Then these contracts made by the horse then empower the rat every time someone loses to the horse.
I don't get why they're going to all this trouble. Doesn't the guy just need to make physical contact for like ten seconds? Have him talk to her at the starting line. Hell, make the "finish line" of the race shaking his hand.