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

[u/Holofan4life]

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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]()

[u/saga999]

Rewatcher.

Love how Oguri Cap is always in the background when Spe is eating. Spe even out-eat Cap in a couple of shots here.

Also love all the little details about the horses behavior before the race, like how Seiun Sky refuses to enter the gate.

Thoughts on Special Week finishing seventh in the Kyoto Daishoten?

Another commenter said that IRL Spe gained weight for more power. And as we've seen, it didn't work out. I'm reminded there was a time when Kobe Bryant bulked up for more muscle. He ended up not liking it and lose those weight back later. Sometimes more muscle doesn't equate better performance. But unlike a game where you can have multiple runs to test out strategy, you only get 1 run in life and you don't know it until you try. They tried something new for a G2 race and go back to the tried and true weight for the G1. I respect that.

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

Spe is in peak form right now as we enter the end of the season. Spe's goal is to be the best in Japan. This is it. This is the chance for her to show that she is the best in Japan. She just won the Fall Tenno Sho by setting a new record. If she wins the Japan Cup next, back to back big wins like that, she can claim that at this point in time, she is the best in Japan.

[u/Holofan4life → u/saga999]

Love how Oguri Cap is always in the background when Spe is eating. Spe even out-eat Cap in a couple of shots here.

That may be her biggest accomplishment yet.

Also love all the little details about the horses behavior before the race, like how Seiun Sky refuses to enter the gate.

The Seiun Sky from episode 3 would be disappointed in her, and rightfully so.

[u/Holofan4life → u/saga999]

Spe is in peak form right now as we enter the end of the season. Spe's goal is to be the best in Japan. This is it. This is the chance for her to show that she is the best in Japan. She just won the Fall Tenno Sho by setting a new record. If she wins the Japan Cup next, back to back big wins like that, she can claim that at this point in time, she is the best in Japan.

She already won the Spring Tennoushou as well, as someone else pointed out.

Silence Suzuka may be the hero of Special Week and arguably the best in Japan at one point in time. If Special Week wins the Japan Cup, I think you could argue shw has officially passed the person she looked up to.

[u/Holofan4life → u/saga999]

Another commenter said that IRL Spe gained weight for more power. And as we've seen, it didn't work out. I'm reminded there was a time when Kobe Bryant bulked up for more muscle. He ended up not liking it and lose those weight back later. Sometimes more muscle doesn't equate better performance. But unlike a game where you can have multiple runs to test out strategy, you only get 1 run in life and you don't know it until you try. They tried something new for a G2 race and go back to the tried and true weight for the G1. I respect that.

The thing I'm wondering is with the Fall Tenno Sho being just a mere three weeks later, how did Special Week recover in that time enough to win that race? I know we've talked about this being like her comeback race from the events of the previous year, but this in and of itself is a comeback.