Yes I got it, and I bred a Gold Chocobo fair and square

(says this as he holds R1+R2 to recover chocobo's stamina)

But either way you slice it, Ultimate End is just the mother of all summons.

Interestingly, they hacked the chocobo racing so that if you finish first, the other racers speed up, and you don't have to wait as long for them to finish...if this was possible in the original I don't remember.

But they didn't change the speed at which the KOTR summon animation plays...

I guess it just seems a lot more ULTIMATE when it takes 4 hours.