Sakura Chiyono O

"Patience is the key. "Cherry blossoms only bloom in spring", after all!"

- Sakura Chiyono O

Profile
A nice and sincere ordinary horse girl. She works hard to become someone worthy enough to challenge Maruzensky, whom she admires. Everyday, she would put the new insights she gains into a note, as idioms. Said "ChiyoNote" is filled with lots of unique analogies.

Songs

 * Hitamuki My Note (Solo song)
 * ENDLESS DREAM!!
 * Make Debut!
 * We are DREAMERS!!
 * GIRLS' LEGEND U
 * Gaze on Me
 * Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

 * Requirement: Being at the top, turning along the outside of the third to fourth corner
 * Reference: 1988 Japanese Derby

Trivia

 * Originally first appeared in the Cinderella Gray manga.
 * She often compares things to sumo terms, especially when she talks with Hishi Akebono.

Real Life
"(Q: How was your first impression for Sakura Chiyono O?) He looked beautiful, cool, and so sensitive. But he actually had a lot of nerves."

- Futoshi Kojima, main jockey

Sakura Chiyono O is a racehorse in the late 1980s. He won the Japanese Derby at the race record, and granted his father's, brother's, and sempai's dream.


 * His name comes from a sumo wrestler Chiyono Fuji, nicknamed the "Wolf".
 * That's why horse girl Chiyono O's appearance resembles a canine.
 * Some horses around Chiyono O couldn't enter the Derby. He won just like instead of them.
 * His father Maruzensky couldn't enter the Japanese Derby because of foreign-bred restriction.
 * His brother Sakura Toko also couldn't do fearing for injury of legs.
 * Sakura Star O, his sempai Double Crown winner, had passed away because of dislocation of leg at Arima Kinen.