Daiichi Ruby

"Be splendid. Be supreme. Always be the brightest. That is the crown jewel of our clan."

- Daiichi Ruby

Daiichi Ruby (ダイイチルビー, Daiichi Rubii) is a character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.

Personality
Daiichi Ruby is a daughter of a 'magnificent clan whose name is known throughout the world'. She always strives to behave in a noble manner befitting her name, though her stern speech and behaviour make her somewhat unapproachable. She gives the impression that she is not a stranger to others.

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Real Life
Daiichi Ruby is a racehorse in the early 1990s. She is a scion of the "Great Family", and won two colt-filly mixed G1s for the first time.


 * The "Great Family" means a British-bred broodmare Mairie's mare line. These family bore numerous major race winners.
 * This was named by a poet Naoto Shima, after a novel that Toyoko Yamazaki wrote in 1973.
 * Mairie's great-granddaughter Itto won Takamatsunomiya Hai and Swan Stakes, Itto's daughter Hagino Top Lady won the Double Crown, Oka Sho and Queen Elizabeth II Cup . Daiichi Ruby is Hagino Top Lady's daughter.
 * She was known as "romances" with Daitaku Helios and K.S.Miracle.
 * Daitaku Helios often ran well when Daiichi Ruby was at the same race. Fans rumored Helios "loved" Ruby.
 * Those "romances" became popular by Miho Yoshida's manga, Breezing a Furlong Theater.
 * In a horseracing game Winning Post series, a fictional horse First Sapphie appears as their child.
 * In real life, Helios didn't mated with Ruby. But one of Helios's daughter was named First Sapphie after the game.
 * When Daiichi Ruby won the Sprinters Stakes, K.S.Miracle fractured his leg and was euthanized. Ruby couldn't win any races afterward. Some fans said she lost her motivation because he had passed.