2880 Don’t Get Stabbed.
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Haru Urara has passed away at 29. She was a horse whose name means something like Beautiful Spring.
The average lifespan of a horse is 25 to 30 so she had a good long run.
She is famous for inspiring the character of the same name in Unamusume: Pretty Derby and, in real life, losing 113 races consecutively.
Although only winning one race after she officially retired she managed to continue racing for so long by trying hard and placing high enough to win prize money.
Proving that even if you can’t be the best, with effort, you can still succeed.
Something I relate to very much.
I’ve only ever watched some of the anime and not the game, but I got invested in the story of the fake horses and then the stories of the real horses. Race horses often have tragic lives, so living long enough to die of natural causes is something of an achievement. Strangely enough, being a loser who tried hard seemed to make Haru more beloved than if she had been a winner. Not everyone wins, but everyone loses. So I guess everyone can identify with her story on some level.
At the end of the day the death of a racehorse isn’t any more important than the death of anything else, but it meant something to me and I wanted to make a note here so I could remember it if ever I read the blog again someday.
I need to get back to my other project so that’s what I’m going to do. I hope your week is going well. Let’s make plans to meet again on Friday. Until then, try your best even if you fail.
6 Comments
is there an option not to get stabbed at all? lmao
Yes, by being hermit that does not interact with civilization.
But I’ll take the stab to front, maybe counts as honorable dead and net me a ticket to valhalla, the abrahamic after life is bland and hell is just a big sauna.
You really don’t know what the Abrahamic after life is like. There’s not much actually said about it.
I think Oscar Wilde once said:
“True friends stab you in the front.”
I think he meant- good friends tell you what you’re really like, + things like that.
I like in this page, that Evrina’s hair looks like little horns. :)
Yeah, being a racehorse is not an easy life. I’ve known a couple of people who were in the racehorse business. A horse that consistently places is a moneymaker. The real money is in selling horses from that bloodline to other people. The horses have the same problems as other elite athletes. Career (and life) ending injuries are common. The best an uncompetitive filly can hope for is spending the rest of her life pumping out foals after being artificially inseminated with some desirable bloodline. The horses that don’t make the cut get sold off. They don’t generally make good working horses so they go cheap. Horses are expensive to keep, did you ever wonder where those staved and neglected horses that make the news come from? Actual working horses, at least on the local ranches, have it much better. As with most types of racing the saying goes; “How do you make a million dollars in horseracing? Start with two million”.
Hey, man, I get it. But don’t give up. Giving up IS the moment when you’ve actually failed. Be like Charlie Brown trying to kick Lucy’s stupid football. Each time COULD finally be the real thing. 12 January 1980, Pro tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis delivered what is now one of the most famous lines in sports history. Vitas lost to Jimmy Connors 16 times. After finally downing Jimmy Connors in the semifinals of the Masters year-end championship, the American said: “And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row!” Losing isn’t necessarily failure. Keep Fighting. In the words of the great Canadian Red Green, “I’m pulling for ya. We’re all in this together.”