Grass Wonder

"Ufufu~ I’m really excited for the next race~! Isn’t it exhilarating?"

- Grass Wonder Grass Wonder (グラスワンダー, Gurasu Wandā) is a supporting character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.

Formerly one of the great horse girls on track, she took a ten-months break due to an unfortunate leg injury. Now, she has returned fully healed.

After winning the Takarazuka Kinen, she is disappointed in Special Week due to her lack of focus on the race as she expected something from a horse girl who won many recently. Later on, they raced again and went all in which made her glad and satisfied.

Personality
Grass Wonder is a mindful girl who manifests a courteous demeanor. Although she was born in an American family, she is fluent in Japanese and soft-spoken. She is well known as a good counselor who helps everyone carefully and cares deeply for others. She may be insecure about running sometimes due to her leg injury, but it never stops her from training, in hopes of performing as she had before her injury.

Apperance
A humble girl with tawny waist-length hair with a white spot right above her bangs. She attires a badge with two tails under her right ear. Her eyes are blue and she always warms other with her kind, gentle smile.

Songs

 * Secret GRADUATION (Solo song)
 * Kiseki o Shinjite!
 * ENDLESS DREAM!!
 * Make Debut!
 * Grow Up Shine!
 * Special Record!
 * NEXT FRONTIER
 * Pyoitto♪Halleluyah
 * Never Looking Back
 * We are DREAMERS!!
 * GIRLS' LEGEND U
 * Gaze on Me
 * Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

 * Requirement: Winning senior Takarazuka Kinen, Special Week finishing in the second
 * Reference: 1999 Takarazuka Kinen, by Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Fuji TV)

Trivia

 * Her relationship to Maruzensky is a reference to real-life Grass' racing days.
 * She has a younger sister. She tells her to defeat Grass. Grass thinks such her attitude cute.
 * Her personality, peaceful in everyday life and serious about races, is strongly based on her real-life counterpart.

Real Life
"In 1999, Takarazuka Kinen. His target was only one, the same age Derby horse. Now, or yet? No, it is now. The unidentified chestnut changed the future by a moment decision. That horse's name is ―― Grass Wonder."

- 2012 JRA TV commercial

Grass Wonder  is a racehorse in the late of 1990s, specifically the golden age of horse racing that was 1998. He was regarded as the "second coming of Maruzensky" and won both Grand Prix races, defeating Special Week in three instances.


 * "Grass" is his owner Hanzawa's crown/clan name, comes from his brother's horse Green Grass.
 * His sister Wonder Again is also a two-time G1 winner in USA.
 * In his late days, he likes eating dandelions. Grass Wonder's VA Rena Maeda found it when she visited him. Fanarts often depict it.
 * In 2021, his great-grandson Pixie Knight won the Sprinters Stakes, earning a G1 win for the fourth generation of Grass Wonder's bloodline. (Grass Wonder sired Screen Hero, who sired Maurice, Pixie Knight's father).