History ShoutOut / UmaMusume

* [[https://youtu.be/4KzUSqUW9LU Episode 6]] of Umayuru is a parody of ''Manga/InitialD''. Note Happy Meek's competition number is 86.

* Entire [[https://youtu.be/sLV7WHXcOu0 Episode 6]] of ''Umayuru'' is a parody of detective fiction. In this episode, four horse girls dress like famous Japanese detective characters: Tokai Teio as Conan Edogawa from ''Manga/CaseClosed'', Matikanefukukitaru as Ninzaburo Furuhata from ''Series/FuruhataNinzaburo'', Agnes Tachyon as Manabu Yukawa from ''{{Series/Galileo}}'', Mejiro [=McQueen=] as Ukyo Sugishita from ''Aibou: Tokyo Detective Duo''.

* Entire Episode 6 of ''Umayuru'' is a parody of detective fiction. In this episode, four horse girls dress like famous Japanese detective characters: Tokai Teio as Conan Edogawa from ''Manga/CaseClosed'', Matikanefukukitaru as Ninzaburo Furuhata from ''Series/FuruhataNinzaburo'', Agnes Tachyon as Manabu Yukawa from ''{{Series/Galileo}}'', Mejiro [=McQueen=] as Ukyo Sugishita from ''Aibou: Tokyo Detective Duo''.

** In episode 9, Ikuno continues [=McQueen=]'s trend of elegant characters [[Main/PlayingAgainstType doing the most ridiculous moves]] by dragging Twin Turbo away in the setup position for a Kinniku Buster.

* In the game, Kitasan Black's father is a well-loved Enka singer. It reflects the real-life Kitasan Black's owner Saburō Kitajima, a famous Enka singer.
** That's why horse girl Kitasan Black loves Matsuri, the Japanese traditional festival. There is a [[https://youtu.be/HzYazlJ2ay4 Kitajima's work named Matsuri.]]

** In Episode 4 the narration mentions the [[https://youtu.be/k8HlbFbH1Uc 2007 Japanese Derby]]. Technically, the Japanese Derby is for both colts and fillies. But most horse owners don't have their fillies participate in the Japanese Derby because they don't want to compete with physically bigger and stronger colts. However, Vodka's team did, and she became the first filly to win the Derby in 64 years.

** In Episode 4 the narration mentions the [[https://youtu.be/k8HlbFbH1Uc 2007 Japanese Derby]]. Technically, the Japanese Derby is for both colts and fillies. But most horse owners don't have their fillies participate in the Japanese Derby because they don't want to compete with physically bigger and stronger colts. However, Vodka's team did, and she won for the first time as a filly in 64 years.

** The race that appears in Episode 1 and Episode 2 is the [[https://youtu.be/m5d3utSNd4I 1990 Arima Kinen]]. At the time, Oguri Cap was in a slump. He was injured after the [[https://youtu.be/LdUyGrWgDYU Yasuda Kinen]] and defeated in the [[https://youtu.be/XvN9ssIjm6Q Fall Tenno Sho]] and the [[https://youtu.be/FJP2UC1QK74 Japan Cup]]. Many believed it was time to retire. So his team decided to make the Arima Kinen his last race. Oguri Cap's fans cheered at him enthusiastically, but he wasn't the most favorite of the day. The first was White Stone, the second was Mejiro Ardan, and the third was Mejiro Ryan. Oguri Cap was only fourth, but the idol horse outrunned his competitors. The crowd in the racecourse chanted his name to congratulate his last victory.

** At the beginning of Episode 1 the narration mentions the [[https://youtu.be/Y31GyH-r1pE 1990 Japanese Derby]] that Ines Fujin won. Since he was too exhausted to canter, he had to trot when he left the turf. The crowd gathered in the racecourse chanted "Nakano" to congratulate Eiji Nakano, the Ines Fujin's jockey.

* Special Week's mother (dam), Campaign Girl, did die shortly after the birth, and Special Week was manually fed by farm hands - on real-life Hokkaido, too.

** In Episode 6 she returns to racing at Mainichi Okan, as in RL. [[spoiler: And fails to win, as in RL.]]

* Gold Ship is a funky, weird, unpredictable horse. His varying "facial" expressions were [[https://postimg.cc/image/z9uutoe7x/ well reflected]] in the horse girl, and so is his general character (except the real horse kicks and rears and has hurt a few people, too, while the horsegirl just know some martial arts moves). The horse is also quite smart, so that Rubik's Cube in Gold Ship's hands does mean someting, too. (There is a [[https://twitter.com/Goldship_001 Twitter account]] for the real horse, with a few more lively photos).

* Tokai Teio teaches Spica girls to dance. Real-life Tokai Teio could do dressage, which is basically dancing for horses. The anime Tokai Teio proudly does the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_NZGjvzuw Teio step]]... which was [[https://youtu.be/wUjLGQvVVE8 totally real]], and for a racehorse, pretty marvellous.

** That's why horse girl Kitasa Black loves Matsuri, the Japanese traditional festival. There is a [[https://youtu.be/HzYazlJ2ay4 Kitajima's work named Matsuri.]]
* In the game, Machikane Tannhauser dislikes real spiders. (But it seems she likes cute spider characters.) It is based on a rumor about the 1994 Arima Kinen. Her real-life counterpart canceled the race due to hives, and some say an unlucky spider he accidentally ate caused it.

** Tokai Teio [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAuSmXw4Z2c&feature=youtu.be winning by a hair breadth in 1993 Arima Kinen]] and breaking into tears. In RL, it was the jockey who cried.

** Suzuka's racing clips are not yet identified, but he (the real-life horse) raced like that (firmly in the lead) for most of the 1998 season. (However, there is a brief sequence of her winning a race in Tokyo in a G1 outfit. The real life horse never won a G1 in Tokyo).

* The racing is pretty close to the historical 1998 and (after New Year in Episode 8) 1999 seasons, so for an unlikely source of (kinda, sometimes) spoilers, one can look at racing records. Here are links for the main characters; you can find the others on the same website:
** Special Week's racing record: http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000293624/record/
** Silence Suzuka's racing record: http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000282236/record/
** El Condor Pasa's racing record: http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000299155/record/
** Grass Wonder's racing record: http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000299089/record/

* At the end of Episode 4 Team Spica watches a televised race where El Condor Pasa wins. This appears to be the NHK Mile Cup, which he did win in RL. In the interview after the race, Hana mentions "five races, five wins", which appears to be true for El Condor Pasa at that moment (but the RL trainer seems to have been male). The interview is followed by an announcement that El Condor Pasa is going to run in the Derby, which takes the girls by surprise - and also takes viewers who read RL history as spoilers by similar surprise.

* Mainichi Okan in Episode 6 is, again, mostly played "by the book", though some horses who are not represented in the anime are replaced with those from a later timeline (including third-place winner). The important result, [[spoiler: Silence Suzuka defeating El Condor Pasa who was never defeated before,]] is entirely historical. So is the moment when Suzuka [[https://youtu.be/qfwicD3XsMw?t=4m35s does not stop running or a while after crossing the finish line]] (warning: linked video is a spoiler for race results).
* Episode 6 also includes an ''eating contest'' that is a real-life race, but this time, from 1988: the 33rd Arima Kinen (note that the contest is also named "33rd"). As you can see the results of the eating contest broadly match the [[http://www.jbis.jp/race/result/19881225/106/09/ race results]]: [[spoiler: Oguri Cap was first, Tamamo Cross second, and Super Creek disqualified]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qAZocLy27c&feature=youtu.be Video of the race.]]

* The lineup of Tenno Sho in Episode 7 is heavily modified compared to RealLife 1998 Tenno Sho, with many girls from the cast added to the lineup instead of real horses that are not a part of this anime. This works really well, especially with El Condor Pasa [[spoiler: who joined this race as a rematch against Silence Suzuka and got her win, but is obviously not happy about the way she got it. In RealLife, the rematch was planned for a later race, but Suzuka did not survive to join it.]] However, the main incident of that race is shown pretty close to reality: [[spoiler: after taking an unrealistically huge lead and running ever faster, Silence Suzuka breaks down and starts to slow dramatically, closely following [[https://youtu.be/yoGXWgNUjTg the race video]] including the large tree behind which something seems to happen; see the video from 4:50, slow-mo at 16:10. The ambulance, seen on the video at 6:17, also makes an appearance. But while the RealLife horse had to be put down because of the multiple fracture, the anime takes things LighterAndSofter, thanks to ThePowerOfFriendship.]]

* Episode 8 [[TimeSkip time-skips]] a few months, so it is unclear if Spe-chan had three victories that the RealLife horse had during this period (including Spring 1999 Tenno Sho). However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok-alSPahng&feature=youtu.be&t=3m5s 1999 Takarazuka Kinen]] is "played by the book"; it even appears that at the moment when Spe-chan looks back, in RealLife the jockey (Yutaka Take again) looks back.

*** [[spoiler: [[http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000801136/record/ Vodka]] has one win with number 9: Elfin Stakes, Kyoto, 2007. Moreover the runner-up had number 2 as in the anime.]]
*** [[spoiler: [[http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000798369/record/ Daiwa Scarlet]] winning under number 1 means her second race, Sports Hochi Hai, Chukyo, 2006]]

* Special Week's mother (dam), Campaign Girl, did die shortly after the birth, and Special Week was manually fed by farm hands - on real-life Hokkaido, too.

** In Episode 6 she returns to racing at Mainichi Okan, as in RL. [[spoiler: And fails to win, as in RL.]]

* Gold Ship is a funky, weird, unpredictable horse. His varying "facial" expressions were [[https://postimg.cc/image/z9uutoe7x/ well reflected]] in the horse girl, and so is his general character (except the real horse kicks and rears and has hurt a few people, too, while the horsegirl just know some martial arts moves). The horse is also quite smart, so that Rubik's Cube in Gold Ship's hands does mean someting, too. (There is a [[https://twitter.com/Goldship_001 Twitter account]] for the real horse, with a few more lively photos).

* Tokai Teio teaches Spica girls to dance. Real-life Tokai Teio could do dressage, which is basically dancing for horses. The anime Tokai Teio proudly does the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_NZGjvzuw Teio step]]... which was [[https://youtu.be/wUjLGQvVVE8 totally real]], and for a racehorse, pretty marvellous.

** That's why horse girl Kitasa Black loves Matsuri, the Japanese traditional festival. There is a [[https://youtu.be/HzYazlJ2ay4 Kitajima's work named Matsuri.]]
* In the game, Machikane Tannhauser dislikes real spiders. (But it seems she likes cute spider characters.) It is based on a rumor about the 1994 Arima Kinen. Her real-life counterpart canceled the race due to hives, and some say an unlucky spider he accidentally ate caused it.

** Tokai Teio [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAuSmXw4Z2c&feature=youtu.be winning by a hair breadth in 1993 Arima Kinen]] and breaking into tears. In RL, it was the jockey who cried.

** Suzuka's racing clips are not yet identified, but he (the real-life horse) raced like that (firmly in the lead) for most of the 1998 season. (However, there is a brief sequence of her winning a race in Tokyo in a G1 outfit. The real life horse never won a G1 in Tokyo).

* The racing is pretty close to the historical 1998 and (after New Year in Episode 8) 1999 seasons, so for an unlikely source of (kinda, sometimes) spoilers, one can look at racing records. Here are links for the main characters; you can find the others on the same website:
** Special Week's racing record: http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000293624/record/
** Silence Suzuka's racing record: http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000282236/record/
** El Condor Pasa's racing record: http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000299155/record/
** Grass Wonder's racing record: http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000299089/record/

* At the end of Episode 4 Team Spica watches a televised race where El Condor Pasa wins. This appears to be the NHK Mile Cup, which he did win in RL. In the interview after the race, Hana mentions "five races, five wins", which appears to be true for El Condor Pasa at that moment (but the RL trainer seems to have been male). The interview is followed by an announcement that El Condor Pasa is going to run in the Derby, which takes the girls by surprise - and also takes viewers who read RL history as spoilers by similar surprise.

* Mainichi Okan in Episode 6 is, again, mostly played "by the book", though some horses who are not represented in the anime are replaced with those from a later timeline (including third-place winner). The important result, [[spoiler: Silence Suzuka defeating El Condor Pasa who was never defeated before,]] is entirely historical. So is the moment when Suzuka [[https://youtu.be/qfwicD3XsMw?t=4m35s does not stop running or a while after crossing the finish line]] (warning: linked video is a spoiler for race results).
* Episode 6 also includes an ''eating contest'' that is a real-life race, but this time, from 1988: the 33rd Arima Kinen (note that the contest is also named "33rd"). As you can see the results of the eating contest broadly match the [[http://www.jbis.jp/race/result/19881225/106/09/ race results]]: [[spoiler: Oguri Cap was first, Tamamo Cross second, and Super Creek disqualified]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qAZocLy27c&feature=youtu.be Video of the race.]]

* The lineup of Tenno Sho in Episode 7 is heavily modified compared to RealLife 1998 Tenno Sho, with many girls from the cast added to the lineup instead of real horses that are not a part of this anime. This works really well, especially with El Condor Pasa [[spoiler: who joined this race as a rematch against Silence Suzuka and got her win, but is obviously not happy about the way she got it. In RealLife, the rematch was planned for a later race, but Suzuka did not survive to join it.]] However, the main incident of that race is shown pretty close to reality: [[spoiler: after taking an unrealistically huge lead and running ever faster, Silence Suzuka breaks down and starts to slow dramatically, closely following [[https://youtu.be/yoGXWgNUjTg the race video]] including the large tree behind which something seems to happen; see the video from 4:50, slow-mo at 16:10. The ambulance, seen on the video at 6:17, also makes an appearance. But while the RealLife horse had to be put down because of the multiple fracture, the anime takes things LighterAndSofter, thanks to ThePowerOfFriendship.]]

* Episode 8 [[TimeSkip time-skips]] a few months, so it is unclear if Spe-chan had three victories that the RealLife horse had during this period (including Spring 1999 Tenno Sho). However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok-alSPahng&feature=youtu.be&t=3m5s 1999 Takarazuka Kinen]] is "played by the book"; it even appears that at the moment when Spe-chan looks back, in RealLife the jockey (Yutaka Take again) looks back.

*** [[spoiler: [[http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000801136/record/ Vodka]] has one win with number 9: Elfin Stakes, Kyoto, 2007. Moreover the runner-up had number 2 as in the anime.]]
*** [[spoiler: [[http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000798369/record/ Daiwa Scarlet]] winning under number 1 means her second race, Sports Hochi Hai, Chukyo, 2006]]

** [[spoiler: The way Suzuka was saved was taken from the story of a different racehorse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_(horse) ]]

** There is a minor change in Tenno Sho: Mejiro Ryan runs, taking the place of RealLife Mejiro Bright. (Mejiro Bright was a son of Mejiro Ryan; his horsegirl equivalent would emerge later on, in November 2021).
** In the middle of the episode, there is a montage of wins by other Team Spica members. This is an obvious EasterEgg; fans who like comparing the anime to RealLife UsefulNotes/HorseRacing are invited to work out which races are shown. To let you enjoy the task if you want, we place the solution under spoiler tags. You can use the website http://www.jbis.jp to find all race records.

* The first OVA: the race shown at the start, and then again close to the end, is the 1994 Autumn Tenno Sho, but it seems that Winning Ticket and Narita Taishin were switched around . The race that Rudolf watches on the laptop with the others, and that seems to have established "BNW", is the [[https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3559020 1993 Japanese Derby]].

* In Episode 13, the races mentioned at the start are all real, and the snippet of the Arima Kinen for Special Week is close enough to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcwOuj5NgsE final race of Special Week the horse]] in 1999. As for the Winter Dream Tournament, it is indeed a dream race, including the best Japanese horses over three decades. They could never race together; for example, Oguri Cap died before Gold Ship was born. The idea is not new; a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcv3D26GjWA 2015 JRA video]] has a broadly similar lineup and may have been the inspiration for the anime race.

* Tanino Gimlet the horse breaks a lot of fences, so horsegirl Gimlet does as well. She's also the only horsegirl to use "ore" as a personal pronoun besides Vodka, who was the real Gimlet's daughter.

* Air Shakur is named after Music/TupacShakur, and her training events after winning certain races are named after his songs. Winning the Arima Kinen gets you "All Eyez On Me", autumn Tenno Sho "Ambitionz" (az a Ridah), Takarazuka Kinen "Can't C Me", and spring Tenno Sho (Put Your) "Hands Up". Her laptop even sports a sticker with a stylized "All Eyez On Me".

* Tanino Gimlet the horse breaks a lot of fences, so horsegirl Gimlet does as well. She's also the only horsegirl to use "ore" [[OreOnna as a personal pronoun]] besides Vodka, who was the real Gimlet's daughter.

** In episode 7, [=McQueen=] doles out Warsman's Palo Special.

** In episode 9, Ikuno continues [=McQueen=]'s trend of elegant characters [[[[Main/PlayingAgainstType doing the most ridiculous moves]] by dragging Twin Turbo away in the setup position for a Kinniku Buster.

** In season 1 episode 6, Goldship does a Cobra Twist on Teio. At this point [=McQueen=] deduces [[GenreSavvy she could be roped into]] Team Spica's [[ComedicSociopathy comedy antics]] and tries to leave, but is too late and is left [[Main/BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine accustomed to delivering]] most of the wrestling gags.
** In episode 2, Vodka performs a headlock.

** In episode 8, while Scarlet does an armbar, [=McQueen=] is doing Terryman's Spinning Toe Hold, modeled after Terry Funk's.

** In episode 9, Ikuno continues [=McQueen=]'s trend of elegant characters doings the most ridiculous moves by dragging Twin Turbo away in the setup position for a Kinniku Buster.

** In season 1 episode 6, Goldship does a Cobra Twist on Teio. At this point [=McQueen=] deduces [[GenreSavvy she could be influenced]] by Team Spica's [[ComedicSociopathy comedy antics]] and tries to leave, but is too late and is left accustomed to delivering most of the wrestling gags.

** In episode 14, [=McQueen=] performs Kinnikuman's Romero Special, going back to Rito Romero.

** Biwa Hayahide goes on about the effectiveness of decarbonated cola as a drink, like in the first episode of Manga/BakiTheGrappler.

* Season 2, Episode 11 has Biwa Hayahide going on the effectiveness of decarbonated cola as a drink, like in the first episode of Manga/BakiTheGrappler.

** That's horse girl Kitasa Black loves Matsuri, the Japanese traditional festival. There is a [[https://youtu.be/HzYazlJ2ay4 Kitajima's work named Matsuri.]]