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Yeah, the idols element is probably the main economic driver for umaracing. Buy your ticket to today's races at Hanshin, and included in the price is a seat at the Winning Live (so that's a sports event and concert, we can therefore assume that for umaracing the entry price is a bit more than...
As regards the biology, I think it’s a canon thing that Umamusume have a peak performance period sometime in their teenage years, outside of which they physically cannot compete at the same level. It’s mentioned in Meisho Doto’s career mode, I believe.
It's been done in the same vein as the character profiles from the game; they typically list character traits related to the ears and tail, rather than describing them directly. For example, Haru Urara, bless her, has her ear trait listed as "Big words go in one ear and out the other".
In all honesty, there’s no way a physically stronger subset of the human species would be discriminated against, considering they’re basically tailor-made to be a warrior class, which, historically, you don’t want to get on the bad side of.
Also the out-of-universe reason of Umamusume being a...
Yeah, the whole "reincarnated from another world, born to run" spiel is recounted at the start of all the movies/anime seasons so that the audience gets the central conceit of the setting. Like a "long time ago in a galaxy far far away" thing.