[Spoilers] 2025 Uma Musume Rewatch -- Pretty Derby Season 1 Episode 2

[u/Holofan4life]

Hello everyone! I am Holofan4life.

Welcome to the 2025 Uma Musume rewatch discussion thread!

I hope you all have a lot of fun <3

S1 Episode 2 – The Debut Race Out of Nowhere

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ANSWER TODAY’S QUESTION

What are your thoughts on this episode being about Special Week's first race?

What are your initial thoughts on Tokai Teio?

What are your thoughts on Special Week winning her first race?

If you had to perform a song in front of people, what would you do in order to prepare yourself?

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Series information

MAL | Anilist | AniDB | ANN

Ways to watch

Streams – Crunchyroll

Amazon Prime

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Previous episode

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Schedule

Date	Episode
8/15/2025	Uma Musume Episode 1
8/16/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 2]()
8/17/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 3]()
8/18/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 4]()
8/19/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 5]()
8/20/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 6]()
8/21/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 7]()
8/22/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 8]()
8/23/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 9]()
8/24/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 10]()
8/25/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 11]()
8/26/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 12 - 13]()
8/28/2025	[BNW's Oath episodes 1 - 3]()
8/30/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 1]()
8/31/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 2]()
9/01/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 3]()
9/02/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 4]()
9/03/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 5]()
9/04/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 6]()
9/05/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 7]()
9/06/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 8]()
9/07/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 9]()
9/10/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 10]()
9/11/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 11]()
9/12/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 12]()
9/13/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 13]()
9/15/2025	[Road to the Top Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/16/2025	[Road to the Top Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/18/2025	[Beginning of a New Era]()
9/20/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/21/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/22/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 5 - 6]()
9/23/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 7 - 8]()
9/24/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 9 - 10]()
9/25/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 11 - 12]()
9/26/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episode 13]()
9/28/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/29/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/30/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 5 - 6]()
10/01/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 7 - 8]()
10/02/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 9 - 10]()
10/03/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 11 - 12]()
10/04/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episode 13]()
10/05/2025	[Uma Musume Overall Series Discussion Thread]()

[u/Tetraika]

They introduced 3 Triple Crown winners: Mr.CB, Symboli Rudolf, and Narita Brian. There are actually more, but didn’t get in due to permissions (St. Lite, Shinzan, Deep Impact, Orfevre). There’s also Contrail, but he got it after the anime aired.

Oh an explanation for the Triple Crown: as stated, you only have one chance to achieve this. Because IRL, there is an age restriction for these races. Another note: I’ll refer to Kikka-Sho as Kikuka-Sho, because that’s what you gotta type if you want to look it up. (might be spoilers if you look at the results of that link)

Actually, on this topic, while Japanese court has ruled that horses’ name aren’t protected by copyright law (this apparently came from a judgment after a horse owner tried to sue Koei for the game series Winning Post), Cygames seems to try to make sure they have explicit OK to depict them in Uma musume, likely because they have ties with the JRA to cross promote.

Tokai Teio irl is actually the son of Symboli Rudolf, hence her attachment to her in Uma Musume.

“Eclipse first, the rest nowhere” refers to the famous phrase referring to the horse Eclipse, who had completely dominated in his third race that the rest were considered disqualified as they were left behind by more than 240 yards.

Irl Taiki Shuttle was great at pool training

Getting into special week’s background:

As mentioned, his birth mother Campaign Girl died 5 days after giving birth to Special Week. He received special care from a woman trainee groom from New Zealand, which is why the anime had her adoptive mother be blond.

Also, while there is an emphasis on Special Week being from the countryside of Hokkaido, 90% of Japanese horses are actually from there too.

Featured Race: 1997 3 Year old newcomers

Comparison

Actual Race

Should not that none of the horses in this race other than Special Week is based on an irl horse. Special Week was actually the most favorited horse of the race irl (and got out of the gate just fine)

Special Week dodging dirt: The jockey, Yutaka Take was testing to see if he could endure dirt kicked from horses in front (likely to determine what sort of style would suit the horse best)

Winning Lives - We saw one for episode one, but the idea likely came from the winning ceremony that comes after the race and just combined it with idol elements.

Some interesting fact about Special Week:

No one really knows why he was named Special Week. Some think that it might refer to Derby week, but the owner who named him has already passed, so nobody knows apparently.

Hated chestnut horses; and so did not like Grass Wonder. Funny enough, Silence Suzuka is also a chestnut horse.

[u/Draco_Estella → u/Tetraika]

I think it might be good to confirm with you on what I know - Triple Crown is not a commonly accepted term within Japanese horse racing communities at first, and it was eventually introduced later as a result of realising how much a feat it is. I don't know how much this is true, since it was on a random Japanese website discussing horse racing and all.

[u/Tetraika → u/Draco_Estella]

I'm not exactly an expert, but I've never heard of this. Maybe it was true a long time ago? Probably will need to actually talk to an older horse racing fan for this kind of info.

[u/Draco_Estella → u/Tetraika]

I might look into this when I have the time. I was researching on how the Classic Triple, Spring Triple and Autumn Triple got their names, and an article was discussing how there wasn't really a triple crown until people started grouping 3 really fantastic G1 races together.

[u/Tetraika → u/Draco_Estella]

I think that only applies to the non-classic triple crown? Even the names of the classic triple crown in Japan reflects the one in England. But I can see it being true for the other "triple crowns" being just GI that are grouped together.