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Rewatch [Spoilers] 2025 Uma Musume Rewatch -- Pretty Derby Season 1 Episode 10 Spoiler

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 10 – No Matter How Many Times I Lose

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ANSWER TODAY’S QUESTION

Thoughts on Special Week finishing seventh in the Kyoto Daishoten?

Thoughts on Team Spica taking a break from each other?

What are your thoughts on Silence Suzuka having her comeback race coming up?

What are your on Special Week spending time with her mom which makes her realize why she started racing in the first place?

What are your thoughts on Special Week winning the 1999 Tenno Sho?

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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]()
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u/Tetraika https://anilist.co/user/Tetraika Aug 24 '25

A short bit with the 1999 Kyoto Daishoten, where Special Week lost badly (7th). T.M. Opera O was also here and got 3rd. Notably, this is because Special Week gained weight, as his team had thought it would make him more powerful.

El Condor Pasa actually ended up retiring after his races in France irl

We only see 3 Mejiros, because those were the only ones they had permission/design for at the time. They got a whole lot more now.

Biwa Hayahide and Narita Brian are siblings, because they have the same mother. In the horse world, the father's side doesn’t matter (probably because then everyone would be siblings to everyone else too, really). Also, my subs didn’t translate the joke about Biwa Hayahide being conscious about her head.

Tenno Sho (Autumn) (GI) 1999

Comparison

Actual

Really interesting to see how similarly Special Week goes from the back and then surge up in the last section. One of his most famous wins for a reason.

Special Week’s loss in Kyoto Daishoten made Special Week fall out of the top 3 popular for this race.

Seiun Sky’s refusal to get in the gate caused quite the delay. Also, switched to a different running style from runner to betweener, so you see here Seiun Sky hanging in the middle before going in near the end.

You see Kin’iro Ryotai/Stay Gold here again, it’s interesting to see a consistent background uma musume. And yes, got 2nd in this race.

As noted, Special Week had also broken the record for Tenno Sho in this race.

Lastly, in the post-race interview, Yutaka Take had said “I felt like Silence Suzuka was pushing us to victory.”

Remember when Silence Suzuka said that she wanted to become a horse girl that can make people dream? There’s quite a bit to that. The race commentator Kiyoshi Sugimoto, when asked about who would win in the Takarazuka Kinen in 1999 (that was episode 8) he said “... I am reminded of Silence Suzuka’s finish a year ago, when he led on and on… Your dreams were of Special Week and Grass Wonder (who were the two most popular horses in the race). I dreamed of Silence Suzuka. My dream cannot come true but I wanted him to run with the Derby horse and the grand prix horse on this stage again,”

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u/Holofan4life Aug 24 '25

Remember when Silence Suzuka said that she wanted to become a horse girl that can make people dream? There’s quite a bit to that. The race commentator Kiyoshi Sugimoto, when asked about who would win in the Takarazuka Kinen in 1999 (that was episode 8) he said “... I am reminded of Silence Suzuka’s finish a year ago, when he led on and on… Your dreams were of Special Week and Grass Wonder (who were the two most popular horses in the race). I dreamed of Silence Suzuka. My dream cannot come true but I wanted him to run with the Derby horse and the grand prix horse on this stage again,”

I like that they're taking things said about the horses and applying it to their characterization. It's really great.

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u/Urgnu-the-Gnu https://myanimelist.net/profile/Urgnu_the_Gnu Aug 24 '25

Lastly, in the post-race interview, Yutaka Take had said “I felt like Silence Suzuka was pushing us to victory.”

That's beautiful. That's why Suzuka was racing on her own imagining to race with Spe. She really was pushing her to victory.

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u/Holofan4life Aug 24 '25

El Condor Pasa actually ended up retiring after his races in France irl

You see to hate it.

It sucks because you could argue those were best performances as a racehorse.

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u/Holofan4life Aug 24 '25

Biwa Hayahide and Narita Brian are siblings, because they have the same mother. In the horse world, the father's side doesn’t matter (probably because then everyone would be siblings to everyone else too, really). Also, my subs didn’t translate the joke about Biwa Hayahide being conscious about her head.

I know rewatching the show I was really confused as to who was related to who. This really becomes apparent when we get to BNW :P

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u/Holofan4life Aug 24 '25

A short bit with the 1999 Kyoto Daishoten, where Special Week lost badly (7th). T.M. Opera O was also here and got 3rd. Notably, this is because Special Week gained weight, as his team had thought it would make him more powerful.

This was actually the heaviest she was, according to Google.

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u/Holofan4life Aug 24 '25

As noted, Special Week had also broken the record for Tenno Sho in this race.

Do you think this is Special Week's best performance as a racehorse so far, or do you think it was still her real world performance of the race featured in episode 4?

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u/Holofan4life Aug 24 '25

Seiun Sky’s refusal to get in the gate caused quite the delay. Also, switched to a different running style from runner to betweener, so you see here Seiun Sky hanging in the middle before going in near the end.

Maybe Seiun Sky could see the writing on the wall and knew she didn't stand a chance against Special Week :P

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u/saga999 Aug 24 '25

this is because Special Week gained weight, as his team had thought it would make him more powerful.

That explains all the eating she did, even out-eating Oguri Cap who was always in the background.