@Snugglebutt

Uh? It is actually quite a significant difference. I can get 4.5k/hour on Indolent Imperial and only about half of that from Chocobo racing placing first 70% of the time. That is a significant difference. I would say that warrants the use of "A LOT", in caps.

I've "wasted" probably about 25k MGP on gold packs, before I stopped spending MGP on packs and redirected it toward chocobo racing.

I argue that there's even more RNG investment in Chocobo breeding than TT. In a SINGLE breeding (I am pedigree 4 now), I blew over 30k MGP in Grade 5 coverings trying to get ideal stats and hereditary skills. That's not including all the lethe water I've spent on the chocobo before it was retired. Every time a crap covering came up I lost 3.7k MGP. That's pure "invalidation" right there. I couldn't even progress past that stage till I got a good covering since you can't race with a retired chocobo and there's no real reason to keep ranking your birds past 40 in early pedigrees.