In a world very much like our own, great race horses of the past have a chance to be reborn as "horse girls"—girls with the ears and tails of horses as well as their speed and endurance. The best of these horse girls go to train at Tokyo's Tracen Academy, hopefully moving on to fame and fortune as both racers and idols.
Haru Urara appears as a supporting character in Uma Musume. She has bright pink hair and eyes. Her hair is tied up in a small ponytail and her bangs are kept neatly with a dark pink headband. She wears two dark pink ear caps and a white and pink bow on her left ear.
In real life, Haru Urara is a strange racehorse who has never won a match, but is still regularly racing, earning money not inferior to fast horses.
For the purpose of creating a "supersonic" horse breed, people control the bloodlines and reproduction of horses. Focusing solely on producing the fastest horse breed, breeding organizations spend a large amount of money. If a horse wins, it will receive a huge amount of money, but if it loses, it will no longer be allowed to race, and many horses are even slaughtered. The horses at the racetrack live in a world like this, where winning means survival and losing means death, simple yet incredibly harsh.
You will be surprised when you know its record: participated in 113 races, number of wins: 0.
Yes, it has never won a single race. However, it doesn't matter, this horse is still regularly allowed to race. Every year, it participates in about 20 races. Even when not winning, the horse still receives a starting fee of 60,000 Yen, so it earns about 1.2 million Yen per year. However, it costs about 1.3 - 1.4 million Yen to raise Haru Urara each year, so this is an investment that incurs losses. But because the loss is not significant, the horse breeders don't "dispose" of it and continue to let it run as long as it can, thus the losses keep increasing.
There are three scenarios for retired thoroughbred racehorses:
- Becoming a breeding horse.
- Used for riding events.
- Turned into... horse sashimi.
Generally, 90% of retired horses follow scenario 3, and this is certain for the injured ones. However, none of these three scenarios apply to Haru Urara. This horse spends its remaining days peacefully on a farm in Chiba. This must be one of the luckiest horses.
The Haru Urara papercraft was shared by a Baidu user named 狐仙铃. Fully printed on 3 sheets of paper, back-side printing is required. Dimensions when finished are 29cm high, 13cm wide, and 9cm deep.
Download and build your own Uma Musume | Haru Urara papercraft by 狐仙铃.
