Obey Your Master (オベイユアマスター, Obei Yua Masutā) is a character in Umamusume: Cinderella Gray.
Profile[]
Obey Your Master is an American Umamusume who travels to Japan to participate in the international Japan Cup. While depicted as having an over-the-top demeanor that Japanese citizens view as typical for Americans, this is actually a facade she crafted by emulating a friend to make her opponents underestimate her.
Back in America, she lost every race she participated in; thus, she was especially desperate to win the Japan Cup. Prior to the event, she thoroughly researched her competition while, in turn, hiding her own abilities using her bad record. In the end, her strategy worked, edging out a victory over Tamamo Cross and winning the Japan Cup.
Obey Your Master once again participates in the following year's Japan Cup. While initially continuing her facade, she ultimately drops it following an interaction with Oguri Cap, where the latter instantly saw through it. In the end, she placed third, after Oguri and Folkqueen. Losing did not bother her, however, as she was able to race as her true self. Afterwards, she returns to the U.S., and does not compete in the following year's Japan Cup.
Appearance[]
She has frizzy blonde hair, which is dark blue at the ends, in a half up. Her earring is a captive bead ring in her right ear with two captive bead rings on the top and bottom. Her eyes are blue with a gold star-shaped iris. She wears two simple bracelets, one on each side, and a star ornament necklace.
It later revealed that she is actually mimicking another umamusume as a facade for the Japan Cup. She originally had straight hair with a side bang covering one of her eye and wears a butler attire as her racing uniform. During the next year's Japan Cup, she reverts back to her original appearance after Oguri saw through her facade.
Real Life[]
Pay the Butler was an American racehorse who competed from 1986 to 1990. He participated in forty races across the United States, Japan, Germany, and France, and finished with five wins, five second place finishes, and five third place finishes. He is best known for winning the 1988 Japan Cup against a strong field of competitors including Tamamo Cross, Oguri Cap, Tony Bin, Moon Madness, My Big Boy, and Bonecrusher. It was Pay the Butler's only G1 win.
In 1989, Pay the Butler again competed in the Japan cup, finishing third behind the winner Horlicks and the second place Oguri Cap.
Pay the Butler was retired from racing in 1990 and entered stud service. However, he died in 1991, siring only one crop of foals before he passed away.