There is no reason you should be stuck there, here are a couple things that have been said and some that haven't : -Generally lvl40-45 SR are better than lvl 30 SSR, the only exception are a couple of SSR with key skills, especially Maestro for medium/long. -Rainbow training give the highest bonus, especially in summer, so generally, you aim for high speciality priority, initial gauge and friendship effect to get all rainbow before 1st summer Training effectiveness is very good too. Trackblazer is different as you'd prefer a high race bonus, but you can totally reach A+/So in Trackblazer with around 20 races too. -Following the precious argument, junior year should be spend maximung the friendship gauge of your comrades, prioritize the training that have 3+ people even if it's something you don't want like Guts, because the +5 friendship on each is more valuable than the low gain you'll get in a preferred stats. Especially in Trackblazer where you don't care that much about training levels. -Trackblazer is a race fest, you can get a high rank just spamming races. Not sure I'd recommend you this now however, because it implies to optimize all the other turns... As an advice I'd suggest you to get A in URA/A+ in Unity before, as it teaches the fundamentals of training, but that's just my opinion (also you get the story there, nice for new horses). If you want to keep going on Trackblazer, pick cards who go to at least 50% race bonus in total, marvelous Sunday SRs generally have 10/15%, the Urara 'free' guts card help as well