Admire Vega

"…What do you want? I’m talking to my “sister” right now. Please don’t interrupt."

- Admire Vega

Profile
A thoroughbred who was predicted to have great skill from a young age. She seems unusually indifferent towards racing, but doesn’t go a day without practicing. She seems to hold great hostility towards not only trainers, but all officials in the Twinkle Series, which may have something to do with the circumstances of her youth…?

Songs

 * Make Debut!
 * ENDLESS DREAM!!
 * We are DREAMERS!!
 * Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

 * Condition: Winning the Japanese Derby
 * Reference: 1998 Japanese Derby, by Masaharu Miyake (Fuji TV)

Trivia

 * It's heavily implied that she lost her sister to the Twinkle Series.
 * T.M. Opera O often stands by her because in real life they are same age, and the two of Top Three.
 * She is nicknamed as "Ayabe-san" in Uma Musume World. Real life Admire Vega is often called "AdVe".

Real Life
"Admire Vega overtook all rivals that believed their victories. His overwhelming stride of the new age exploded the theory of the "Derby Position", within tenth at the fourth corner to win. And other horses became a prey of him."

- 100 Bucephaluses of the 20th Century Admire Vega is a recehorse in the early 2000s. He won the Derby and shared the Triple Crown with T.M. Opera O and Narita Top Road.

At birth
Top-tier bloodline (Sunday Silence and Vega), but Vega carried twins. Conventional wisdom in horse racing is that twins do not perform well in racing, so they killed one of the fetus while still in the womb, and let the other be born. Admire Vega was the surviving one.

In 1998 (2 years old)
His maiden race was on November 7. He finished in the first, though, he was judged to had prevented Frontal Attack, and demoted in the fourth. His jockey Yutaka Take got a suspension for a month.

After Take's suspension was expired, He won Erica Sho (5 million or less), and Radio Tampa Hai 3-year-old Stakes (G3).

In 1999 (3 years old)
At Yayoi Sho (G2), He could not reach Narita Top Road and lost in the second. though, he got a priority to enter Satsuki Sho.

At Satsuki Sho (G1), He lost in T.M. Opera O's sixth.

At Japanese Derby (G1), He overtook almost all at the homestretch, and fought with T.M. Opera O and Narita Top Road. He finished in the first, by neck to the second Top Road. Yutaka Take won the Derby twice in a row, for the first time in Japanese horseracing history.

He won Kyoto Shimbun Hai (G2), but at Kikka Sho (G1), he lost in Narita Top Road's 6th.

In 2000 (4 years old)
His stable aimed at Takarazuka Kinen, however, he got suspensory ligament dismitis and retired.

After retirement
As a broodsire, four G1 winners were born, including two hurdle racers.

However, he suddenly died of a stomach rupture, at just the age of eight. His children are only four generations.


 * Though Vega sounds feminine, he is a stallion. It comes from his mother's name.
 * Take's suspension affected some horses. Air Groove and Special Week had to change their jockeys during his suspension, and both lost.