Seeking the Pearl

"The world is full of possibilities! Yes, like me, a pearl!"

- Seeking the Pearl Seeking the Pearl (シーキングザパール, Shiikingu Za Paaru) is a character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.

Personality
Seeking The Pearl is a horse girl who doesn't just want to be a small speck in history. Having lived in many different countries growing up, she wants to show that with her body, anything in the world can happen. And she can prove it, delivering great results in short and mile races with a smile on her face.

She is also considered a big sister figure among younger horse girls because of her life. However, despite all her traveling, she actually doesn't speak English. She mitigates this comfortably by using body language.

Relationships

 * Taiki Shuttle: Rival at mile and short-distance races.
 * IRL: Both are US-bred. Each of them won a French G1.
 * Matches (StP/TS):
 * 1998 Yasuda Kinen 10th/1st
 * 1998 Mile Championship 8th/1st
 * 1998 Sprinters Stakes 2nd/3rd (1st: Meiner Love)
 * Mejiro Dober: Talks at Oka Sho.
 * IRL: Fought twice. Pearl couldn't enter the Classics because of foreign-bred horse restriction.
 * Matches (StP/MD):
 * 1996 Niigata 3-year-old Stakes 3rd/5th (1st: Personality One)
 * 1996 Hanshin 3-year-old Filly Stakes 4th/1st
 * Mejiro Bright: Talks when junior class.
 * IRL: Fought once.
 * Matches (StP/MB):
 * 1996 Daily Hai 3-year-old Stakes 1st/2nd

Songs

 * Umapyoi Densetsu
 * Make Debut!
 * Honnou Speed
 * GIRLS' LEGEND U
 * Ms. VICTORIA
 * DRAMATIC JOURNEY

Special Commentary

 * Requirement: Winning NHK Mile Cup
 * Reference: 1997 NHK Mile Cup by Tatsuya Aoshima (Fuji TV)

Trivia

 * In the early version of the project, she was bilingual and could speak English. This is not the case now.
 * She is terrified of lightning storms and grows quiet whenever the weather is bad.

Real Life
"Nowadays, whenever 'strongest in Japan'-class racehorse is born, people talk about their expeditions. However, in those days even challengers were few, and it had been thought winning foreign G1 was just a dream. After those ages, the one who made it come true as a Japanese-trained horse was Seeking the Pearl, who won the Prix Maurice de Gheest in 1998."

- JRA-VAN

Seeking the Pearl is a racehorse from the late 1990s. She is the first Japanese-trained horse to win a foreign G1.


 * She won a French G1 just a week before Taiki Shuttle won, finishing first in the Prix Maurice de Gheest.
 * Most fans expected Taiki Shuttle would be the first foreign G1 winner in Japanese horse, and few knew she had flown to Europe.
 * IRL Seeking The Pearl also traveled around a lot during her life. She was born in the US (internally, she went from ranch to ranch during auctions before settling into her owner's US base), was in Europe for a short time then traveled to Japan to begin her training. And even during her career, she traveled to France and the US to race.
 * She presumably died from a lightning strike.