I have spent the morning learning about a recently deceased horse thanks to Umamusume: Pretty Derby

Around a week ago, 146,000 radical mourned the decease of a equine they'd ne'er met. This mightiness beryllium the champion azygous happening that has ever happened successful videogames, though I don't ideate the equine would springiness a shit. Grass Wonder was a celebrated Japanese racehorse, but it's apt the bulk of those that mourned his decease online are lone fans of Japanese equine racing by proxy.

Here is an nonfiction astir Grass Wonder's decease that does not notation Umamusume: Pretty Derby once. I find this profound and comforting, successful the consciousness that it feels miraculous that specified intertwined taste spheres tin inactive beryllium successful their ain siloes. There are radical who knew Grass Wonder well, yet would look astatine you playing the anime equine miss crippled successful wordless confusion, prevention a muttered directive that you question the emotion and airy of a forgiving god.

I'm not going to eulogise Grass Wonder due to the fact that I bash not attraction astir Grass Wonder immoderate much than I attraction astir immoderate different horse, and don't particularly consciousness similar pretending I bash conscionable for the involvement of a bit. I deliberation each horses are beauteous bully but I cannot eulogise them all. But Grass Wonder is special is the consciousness that Grass Wonder is the equine I'm presently reasoning about. Grass Wonder is, arsenic acold arsenic I'm concerned, the astir celebrated equine successful the satellite close now. He tramples with disdain implicit the frail, fallen forms of lesser attraction system aspirants, and from beyond the sedate nary less.

Again, we tin archer from that societal station linked supra that Pretty Derby has inspired astatine slightest 146,000 radical that I ideate would not person different known astir the existence, ne'er caput death, of Grass Wonder, to walk astatine slightest immoderate clip this period reasoning astir his passing. I person not played the equine miss game. Perhaps it has the powerfulness to repair my narration with my ain soul, though I'm sceptical. But today, astatine least, it has conjured for maine a reminder that destiny has some a consciousness of humour and a penchant for Gacha mechanics. If the beingness is, indeed, a instrumentality for producing ever much potent instances of novelty, it did a good occupation with the taste interaction of this racehorse's fatal organ failure.

According to the nonfiction linked above, Grass Wonder "sired 736 winners from 1327 foals". If idiosyncratic successful the comments could enlighten maine to whether this is simply a misprint I would beryllium grateful. Grass Wonder has been breeding for 25 years. If we presume the supra to beryllium true, that's astir 53 kids a year, oregon 1 a week. Goliath-felling levels of mythical dick slinging, that. A existent legacy, though Grass Wonder's interaction connected maine volition stay the inactive precise notable accomplishment of making maine deliberation astir equine dick portion penning astir videogames. This fundamentally ne'er happens. Oh, possibly Mouthwashing, actually. Weird that it happened twice, etc.