Matikanefukukitaru

"I try not to impose fortunes onto other people. However, it looks like you’ve got really bad luck today!!"

- Matikanefukukitaru

Profile
A bit of an eccentric horse girl who loves supernatural things, like divination, superstitions, and the like. She enjoys checking the “fortune-telling corner” in magazines, even when she gets a bad fortune. She believes that luck is the most important factor in a race, and actually seems to display astounding ability on lucky holidays (perhaps it’s just her mindset?) She has a wholesome, good-natured personality. She has trouble declining newspaper sellers on the street. It seems that she often gets tricked into scams…

Songs

 * Lucky Comes True! (Solo song)
 * Present March
 * Make Debut!
 * GIRLS' LEGEND U
 * UNLIMITED IMPACT
 * winning the soul
 * transforming
 * Winning' 5 -Winning☆Five-
 * Never Looking Back
 * We are DREAMERS!!
 * Gaze on Me
 * Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

 * Requirement: Winning Kyoto Shimbun hai, and then winning Kobe Shimbun Hai
 * Reference: 1997 Kyoto Shimbun Hai, by Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Kansai TV)

Trivia

 * She has relationships with real-life 1997-Classic generations, especially Silence Suzuka and Taiki Shuttle.
 * Shiraoki-sama, who she worships, comes from "his" real-life ancestor.
 * She had a sister who passed away when she was young.

Real Life
"Fortune has come again! Next to Kobe and Kyoto, fortune has come on the chrysanthemum stage!"

- 1997 Kikka Sho, by Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Kansai TV)

Matikanefukukitaru is a racehorse in the late 1990s. He is the first and last G1 winner in more than 600 Matikane squadron. His acceleration at the stretch overwhelmed Silence Suzuka at Kobe Shimbun Hai. Some of fans and trainers say he was the strongest 3-year-old horse in 1997.


 * His name is "Machikane Fuku Kitaru" in regular Japanese spelling. Racehorse's names are internationally limited by 18 letters or less, including spaces. So "chi(チ)" is shortened to "ti", and space is omitted. This is the same reason as Matikane Tannhauser (Matikanetannhauser).
 * His name "Fuku Kitaru" means "fortune comes". With his contemporary Matikanewaraukado, these come from a Japanese proverb "Warau Kado ni wa Fuku Kitaru (Fortune comes in a home with laughter)".
 * Matikanewaraukado won Tokai Kikka Sho (G2) in Nagoya. Both became "Kikka Sho" horses.
 * Harry Seeney, former general manager of Machikane Farm, later founded a racehorse club. It was named Fukukitaru Co., Ltd. after him. The company investing to Fukukitaru was named Waraukado Co., Ltd. after Matikanewaraukado.
 * He belongs to Shiraoki family line. Others are Special Week and Vodka.
 * He has a brother Athena Tosho's 1991 . he was euthanized by breaking his neck bone when he was a foal. He is supposed as a model of Fukukitaru's "Onee-chan".
 * He lived his late years in Kosuta Farm with Matikanetannhauser. Many fans visited him to be given his "fortune". "Her" voice actor Hiyori Nitta did, too. He lived long as his name suggests until the age of 26.