Honestly, the chocobo racing might be one of the better things to talk about with Cloud. If they stick to just the chocobos and the races, there's less chance of getting into why Cloud had needed to race them and thus staying away from the topic of Sephiroth. That's always a good thing.

"They power boats where you're from?" she asks curiously. With Shinra in control of almost the entire Planet by now, they had the means to build things far more powerful than chocobo-power. It's an interesting, but primitive, concept. "That must have been strange. There' a chocobo farm outside of Midgar, between the ocean and a swamp. Probably picked that spot because the only way to cross the swamp without the Midgar Zolom catching you is on a chocobo. Nothing else is fast enough."