Agnes Tachyon

"Hmm… Log Entry: When intellect overflows, it sometimes exits in the form of a sigh."

- Agnes Tachyon Agnes Tachyon (アグネスタキオン, Agunesu Takion) is a character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.

Profile
A super genius horse girl who’s one of the smartest horse girls of her time. Because of her great intellect, she’s never had to reveal her maximum ability. Thus her true skills are still unknown. Her personality is logical, intelligent, and eccentric. She’s not at all malicious, and in fact has a jovial, playful disposition. She has an Ultimate Super Ultra Sweet Tooth. She’s constantly eating sugar to keep her grey matter full of energy.

Personality
Agnes is a very intelligent, educated and curious girl. Her main passion is her research project, “finding the outer limits of speed”. She spends most of the time on her research project, sometimes she can get even obsessed about it. Agnes regularly misses out on races or classes to prioritize her research. She is not willing to sacrifice any time for other activities, such as cooking or training. Agnes is also very excited and determined about her scientific experiments. She values her research project so much that she is even willing to accept severe sanctions from the school.

Agnes is direct, honest and speaks her mind freely. She can be disagreeable and tells others what she truly thinks of them. She doesn’t shy away of being blunt or even a bit rude occasionally. Sometimes she laughs outs loud, even in inappropriate situations. Agnes is a free spirit and does as she pleases. She acts non-conforming and doesn’t go with the crowd. She seems to care little about what others think of her.

With the trainer, Agnes is direct, honest, blunt. Sometimes, she is a bit playful or even teases him. She calls him "guinea pig", as the trainer volunteers to be Agnes’ test subject for her experiments. She places high demands on the trainer and sometimes acts dominant.

Relationships

 * Agnes Digital: Roommate.
 * IRL: Owned by Takao Watanabe. Digital is one year older than Tachyon, however, they never fought because Tachyon's retirement was early.
 * Daiwa Scarlet: Tachyon is always kind to her.
 * IRL: Daughter.
 * Air Shakur:
 * IRL: Sunday Silence's foals. Tachyon's brother Agnes Flight defeated Shakur at the Derby.
 * Manhattan Cafe: Shares a classroom with her.
 * IRL: Sunday Silence's foals. Since they didn't fight at the Classics, real-life fans don't regard them as "rivals".
 * Matches (AT/MC)
 * 2001 Yayoi Sho (1st/4th)
 * Jungle Pocket: Friend and rival.
 * IRL: Rival at pre-Classics.
 * Silence Suzuka: In the main story, Tachyon helps Suzuka with Suzuka's concern about her legs.
 * IRL: Sunday Silence's foals. Both of them "left turf" due to a leg issue.
 * Tanino Gimlet: They boasts of their kouhais.
 * IRL: Their daughters are rival.

Songs

 * Lightless (Solo song)
 * ENDLESS DREAM!!
 * Make Debut!
 * Enjoy and Join
 * GIRLS' LEGEND U
 * transforming
 * winning the soul
 * Never Looking Back
 * We are DREAMERS!!
 * Midnight Epilogue
 * Ms. VICTORIA
 * DRAMATIC JOURNEY
 * Everlasting BEATS
 * Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

 * Requirement: Winning Satsuki Sho
 * Reference: 2001 Satsuki Sho, by Tsuneo Shiobara (Fuji TV)

Trivia

 * In the game version, she tries to let her trainer be a "guinea pig".

Real Life
"In 2001, Satsuki Sho. The horse became a myth after only four runs. It appeared from another space, and passed away in a moment. He made other horses despair. and watchers dazzled. The Superluminal Particle. The horse's name is ―― Agnes Tachyon."

- 2012 Satsuki Sho commercial, by JRA

Agnes Tachyon was a racehorse in the early 2000s. Although he ran only four races and retired, in every race he overwhelmed even later G1 horses. People call him a "phantom Triple Crown winner". As a studhorse, he bred six G1/Jpn1 winners and became a leading sire. However, he suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 11.

At birth
Agnes Flora, his mother, was an Oka Sho winner. Flora's mother Agnes Lady also won the Japanese Oaks. His father Sunday Silence had already been known as a great stallion, who had remade Japanese horse production, when he was born.

Watanabe mated Flora with Sunday Silence two years in a row, as her fourth and fifth foals. Older one is Agnes Flight, a later Derby winner. younger one is later Agnes Tachyon.

In 2000 (2 years old)
His maiden race was in Hanshin 2000m. He was expected as Agnes Flight's brother. He overwhelmed Rebroadcast and other blooded horses by 3.5 lengths.

Radio Tampa Hai 3-year-old Stakes (G3) has been told as a legendary showdown. Tachyon left Kurofune and Jungle Pocket behind and won by 3.5 lengths, breaking the record of 2yo 2000m, which Kurofune had set at his previous race.

In 2001 (3 years old)
His team decided to enter the Yayoi Sho (G2). There were only eight horses because many horses avoided fighting him. He won by five lengths, defeating Manhattan Cafe in fourth.

At Satsuki Sho (G1), 59.4% of people betted him to win. He answered his popularity winning easily, and most of fans and media expected him to win the Triple Crown.

Nevertheless, on May 2, a bowed tendon was found in his front-left leg, and he had to give up the Derby. In August 29, his retirement was announced.

Afterward, Many of horses who Tachyon defeated won G1s continuously. Kurofune won the NHK Mile Cup and Japan Cup Dirt, Jungle Pocket did the Derby and the Japan Cup, Manhattan Cafe did the Kikka Sho and Arima Kinen. His evaluation also increased relatively, so he was called the "Phantom Triple Crown".

After retirement
He became a studhorse in Shadai Stallion Station. He bred several grade race winners from the first year. In 2006, Logic became the first G1 winner in his foals winning the NHK Mile Cup. Daiwa Scarlet, one of his daughter in the second year, won four G1, desperately fighting with Vodka. On the other hand, his foals also had weak legs. Many of Tachyon's foals retired due to bowed tendons or leg fractures.

In 2008, he became the comprehensive leading sire of Japan, succeeding his father Sunday Silence.

In 2009, he suddenly passed away due to a heart attack, at just 11 years old. Deep Sky and Admire Aura were his succeeding sire. Now his sire line was succeeded by Arctos, Admire Aura's foal.
 * "Agnes" is Takao Watanabe's crown name, comes from Agnes Chan, a Hongkongese idol in Japan.
 * Agnes Tachyon, Jungle Pocket and Manhattan Cafe shared 2001 Triple Crown, however, most of real-life racing fans don't treat them as a trio because Tachyon retired too early to be said he "rivaled" Manhattan.