Huh. Makes sense considering the RL horse's background.
I keep wondering why they treat her in Uma as "German" despite her IRL counterpart isn't. Perhaps it is a reference to her rider or just the usual JP people and their love for German-stuff.
I keep wondering why they treat her in Uma as "German" despite her IRL counterpart isn't. Perhaps it is a reference to her rider or just the usual JP people and their love for German-stuff.
Horse was conceived in Germany but born in Japan (dam was shipped over while pregnant).
Dam is Moonlady, a rather famous German horse with multiple wins under her belt who also comes from a famous German lineage (Platini being her sire). Eishin Flash's sire is an American horse but also has significant German lineage.
But horse counts as Japanese (for the purpose of regulations and qualifying for races) because he was born in Japan.
The horse was really big compared to his peers (hence why umagirl Flash is also... *ahem* big), and his German lineage was famous and mentioned all the time when he wins, so the horse is kinda well known for being "German", I guess. Presumably that is why the umagirl is also German. One of the horse's jockeys (Mirco Demuro) also knelt like a knight before the Japanese emperor after winning the Tenno Sho, kinda adding to an image of a Teutonic knight for the horse (jockey was Italian though). And also why the umagirl has a cavalry saber and is frequently depicted taking a bow.
Horse was conceived in Germany but born in Japan (dam was shipped over while pregnant).
Dam is Moonlady, a rather famous German horse with multiple wins under her belt who also comes from a famous German lineage (Platini being her sire). Eishin Flash's sire is an American horse but also has significant German lineage.
But horse counts as Japanese (for the purpose of regulations and qualifying for races) because he was born in Japan.
The horse was really big compared to his peers (hence why umagirl Flash is also... *ahem* big), and his German lineage was famous and mentioned all the time when he wins, so the horse is kinda well known for being "German", I guess. Presumably that is why the umagirl is also German. One of the horse's jockeys (Mirco Demuro) also knelt like a knight before the Japanese emperor after winning the Tenno Sho, kinda adding to an image of a Teutonic knight for the horse (jockey was Italian though). And also why the umagirl has a cavalry saber and is frequently depicted taking a bow.
> Born in Germany, Raise in Japan Well I guess she still a German then.
> Born in Germany, Raise in Japan Well I guess she still a German then.
Conceived in Germany, mom brought over while pregnant to give birth in Japan. Racehorse equivalent of human birth tourism, kinda. Here it was used to "game" restrictions on foreign horses participating in Japanese races.
There are some English sources that mention "born in Germany, raised in Japan" for the horse, but those are mistranslations ("conceived"/"bred" being mistranslated as "born"). If the horse was actually born in Germany then he would have been barred from some of the races he did participate in, and he would also have (GER) after his name on JBIS instead of (JPN).
As for the umagirl Flash, think she was born and raised in Germany, but is studying/training at Tracen as an international student.
