gotta be Global then? Though I don't remember him getting leg injury.
He had a very promising start to his career with Yutaka, then he fractured the proximal sesamoid bone of his right foreleg really badly. The entire bone basically split in half vertically. Fortunately they didn't go with the usually prescribed euthanasia option and were able to bolt the bone back together again and Global recovered (albeit with some complications to his other foreleg because of the stress placed on it while the right one recovered) but his career was never quite the same afterwards. Did manage to win a GII post-recovery though.
Yeah, Sugar Lights is definitely based on a Yamanin (her hair color and hairdec colors), and Global's leg injury and method of recovery maps to Lights using a wheelchair and her "mechanical" approach to be able to experience racing again. She also has C.B.-style hairclips and the ahoge, which is likely a nod to the IRL Global being a son of Mr. C.B.
Odd that they went with "Sugar" in her name though. Made me think briefly of Teio's daugher Yamanin Sucre, then I noticed Lights' ear dec which marks her as based on a stallion.
He had a very promising start to his career with Yutaka, then he fractured the proximal sesamoid bone of his right foreleg really badly. The entire bone basically split in half vertically. Fortunately they didn't go with the usually prescribed euthanasia option and were able to bolt the bone back together again and Global recovered (albeit with some complications to his other foreleg because of the stress placed on it while the right one recovered) but his career was never quite the same afterwards. Did manage to win a GII post-recovery though.
Yeah, Sugar Lights is definitely based on a Yamanin (her hair color and hairdec colors), and Global's leg injury and method of recovery maps to Lights using a wheelchair and her "mechanical" approach to be able to experience racing again. She also has C.B.-style hairclips and the ahoge, which is likely a nod to the IRL Global being a son of Mr. C.B. Odd that they went with "Sugar" in her name though. Made me think briefly of Teio's daugher Yamanin Sucre, then I noticed Lights' ear dec which marks her as based on a stallion.
aaaaaaahhhh... So that's why. I mostly saw the races he participated only during the 90s. I didn't even realized Global was part of the Chasm Generation of '89. Noted... noted. I'm expecting to have some tearjerker moments in the Scenario then. Who knows... maybe she'd have some words about Oguri too like the her other "genmates" in CinGray.
I have no idea why they went with Sugar Lights too. Probably along with the feel of it? Like the Sugar part may evoke Positiveness and the Light part alluding to Hope? Basically playing into her wanting to "run" again schtick.
This is just me stretching far and wide and reading too much into it.
So is she confined to the wheelchair? I think one of the training events depict her to be able to do pull-ups.
She is basically similar to some people IRL that still having that problem walking even they recover from that long time leg injury... Still she can't run which was the love and passion of an umamusume.
