Talk:Lightning Dust/@comment-37049981-20181023135335/@comment-29981995-20181026204920

Nothing in Parental Glideance suggests that those races were to do with them being in the same flight school. In fact, Rainbow Dash refers to a "competetive circuit" and mentions that she was rather young to be competing in it. It thus seems entirely likely that multiple flight schools could have been competing, or that ponies could have been competing in it independently. As such, there's no reason for them to have interacted much if at all during that time-in fact it seems unlikely, for Lightning Dust could have been from an entirely different cloud town. Even if they had a passing acquaintance, remember that Rainbow Dash moved to Ponyville some time prior to the start of the series, possibly long enough ago that she and Lightning Dust wouldn't remember each other very well, thus leading to their reintroduction.