Sweep Tosho

"As you can see, I’m a magical girl! Really! …You don’t believe me?"

- Sweep Tosho

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A horse girl who is a self-styled witch. She’s quite stubborn, almost never listens to coaching, and crosses her arms when she doesn’t get her way. Sometimes she’ll even stay that way for 30 minutes without moving. She called herself “Mahou Shoujo Sweepy” and believes she will be able to use magic when she win a race. She thinks of trainers as her magical familiars.

Trivia

 * Her grandmother taught her how to use "magic". She admires her and wants to be like her, too.
 * Her witch-like outfits and her grandmother probably comes from her real-life mother and grandmother's name.

Real Life
"(Q: Do you want her to be a girlfriend?) Ah, It's hard to me."

- Kenichi Ikezoe, main jockey

Sweep Tosho is a racehorse in the middle of 2000s. She has an amazing finishing stride enough to win Takarazuka Kinen, though she is so stubborn and hated training or entering the starting gate.


 * Tosho Farm puts their crown at the top if the horse is male, and bottom if it is female.
 * Her grandmother Samantha Tosho was named after American sitcom Bewitched. and Samantha's daughter named Tabatha Tosho, too. Sweep was named after his father, though, it reminds a magical broom.
 * She won 2005 Takarazuka Kinen for the first time in 38 years as a mare. She was one of the pioneer mares strong enough to defeat sires.
 * In 2006 Arima Kinen, She refused entering the gate for a few minutes. As a result, she was aired the longest of all horses there, despite it was Deep Impact's last run.
 * She is one of representative horses Kenichi Ikezoe rode on. He is good at driving ill-tempered horses, such as Orfevre, her, or Meikei Yell.
 * Fans call real-life Sweep a tsundere. In Niconico Encyclopedia article, real-life one is in the list, though, horse girl one is not.
 * Her last crop is also one of Deep Impact's. He was sold for 220 million yen, and named Sweep Hours.