Mayano Top Gun

"Aye, copy! Were you running today? Did you outshine me? It’s fine with me either way!★"

- Mayano Top Gun

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Evasion, interception, pursuit… A genius girl who commands all styles of running, changing it up at will. She’s quite a rambunctious troublemaker. In any case, she runs based on how she’s feeling in the moment, and has an inconsistent race record (though it seems she doesn’t care about that at all.) She has an innocent, childlike personality, always making fun of the trainer, but recently she’s begun to grow up a little and act her age. Whenever she wins, she throws exaggerated kisses to the crowd.

Trivia

 * Her jacket is an homage to a movie Top Gun series, however, it was too similar so it was changed in July 2021.
 * On her and "his" birthday in 2021, the movie Top Gun Maverick Japanese official Twitter offered their congratulations on "them". On August 28, it was announced that horse girl Mayano Top Gun would become an advertising character for the movie.

Real Life
"Mayano Top Gun lost in second at Kobe and Kyoto Shimbun Hai! At last, he got a big flower on the chrysanthemum stage! Kobe is strong! Kobe in this year!"

- 1995 Kikka Sho, by Kiyoshi Sugimoto

Mayano Top Gun is a racehorse in the middle of 1990s. He won four G1s with kaleidoscopic racing tactics.


 * Her crown name Mayano comes from Mt. Maya in Kobe. Top Gun is the movie name.
 * His jockey Seiki Tabara took different tactics at every G1 win. He was whimsical, so Tabara decided his tactics after his start. That is because of his nickname "The Kaleidoscope".
 * In 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe, and his owner Dr. Yu Tadokoro lost his own hospital and his brother. Top Gun won Kikka Sho and encouraged him and people in Kobe. In this year, a baseball team in Kobe Orix Blue Wave also became a league champion. Sugimoto's commentary above refered to the two victory by the Kobe horse and the team.
 * 1996 Hanshin Dai Shoten, he and Narita Brian finished closely by head. Though he lost in second, it was told as one of their best bouts.
 * Sakura Laurel, Marvelous Sunday and he are the 1997 Old Horse Top Three. They fought at 1996 Tenno Sho Autumn, Arima Kinen, and 1997 Tenno Sho Spring.