Cesario

Cesario is a 3-star Mile / Medium character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby. Cesario's running style is Pace Chaser / Late Surger. Dormitory: Tracen Academy Ritto Dormitory.

Other Mile / Medium characters in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby: Agnes Digital, Almond Eye, Bubble Gum Fellow, Buena Vista, Copano Rickey, Daiwa Scarlet and 29 more.

Cesario is a character in Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

She is the main protagonist of Act 2 Chapter 2 in the game.

Personality

Cesario is an umamusume of intelligence and compassion.

Influenced by her father, a famous trainer, and mother, who is passionate about education, she holds a great interest in nurturing the next generation of umamusume who come after her.

She holds retired Tiara-winning umamusume as her ideal type since she learned that they also focus on being role models to younger umamusume.

According to her best friend, whom she rooms with, she has a very clear on-off routine.

Appearance

Physically, Cesario mostly resembles a recolor of Special Week (her RL sire/father) and features short dark blue hair in a similar bob cut with a white crown braid and white bangs (the marking is roughly shaped like the irregular star marking of the original horse).

She has purple eyes and has an ornament around her left ear.

CesarioOn that day, she became the queen of two countries.

Cesario was a racehorse that competed in the 2000s.

She is one of most well-known and successful foals of Special Week, alongside Buena Vista.

Life

After winning the 2005 Japanese Oaks, she entered and won the 2005 American Oaks Invitational Stakes, held at Hollywood Park in the United States.

In winning the American Oaks, she became the first Japanese horse to claim a G1 victory in the U.S., setting a race record in the process.

Cesario's career was cut short following her American Oaks victory due to injury, and she was retired from racing to become a broodmare.

She gave birth to twelve foals, with multiple G1 winners among her children and grandchildren.

Cesario passed away due to complications from her thirteenth pregnancy in 2021.

“I will not give up this Tiara. It's time for me to show the way.”

Cesario wears her dark blue hair in a short bob, with a white crown braid, and white bangs.

She has purple eyes with white pupils in the center.

Around her left ear is a golden ring decorated with golden studs around the center.

Her racing uniform is both detailed and elegant.

She wears a white long-sleeved blazer with gold trim, and a long coattail, with the underside being green.

Her tail hole has a large green and white ribbon on top.

The right lapel of her blazer is red, and she wears a red band on her right arm as well.

The sleeves of her blazer have both golden and green chevrons on both cuffs, and she wears a pair of black gloves.

Around her neck is a navy blue ribbon, and under her blazer is a green button-up shirt, frilled at the ends.

She wears a pair of navy blue shorts, rolled up to reveal white fabric underneath.

Her white thigh-high boots are simple, with gold trims, and two green lines at the top.

Rhein Kraft - Friend, roommate, teammate, and rival.

The two are featured in part two of the game's main story, and members of Team Ascella.

They met each other when they were assigned together as roommates, and became friends due to their shared dream of pursuing the Triple Tiara.

Air Messiah - Friend and rival.

Daring Heart - Friend and rival.

Special Week - Friend and upperclassman.

Cesario admires Special Week's optimism.

Buena Vista - Friend.

IRL, Cesario and Buena Vista are both sired by Special Week.

Symboli Kris S - Friend. Cesario feels a mysterious familiarity toward her.

IRL, Cesario and Symboli Kris S are the dam and sire of Epiphaneia and Rosalind.

Fusaichi Pandora, King Halo - Teammates on the game-only team, Team Ascella.

Cesario helps Pandora with her training when Kraft isn't there to mentor her.

Cesario also teaches Pandora how to be a mentor to other racers as well, such as Almond Eye for example.

Admire Groove - Friend. Cesario helps out the children from Admire Groove's orphanage with training.

Cesario also encourages Admire Groove to be open with the children, since the children admire her.

IRL, Cesario and Admire Groove resided at the same farm.

Trivia

The earliest introduction of her is posted to the official Twitter account on January 26, 2024.

It was speculated the cause of the sudden introduction is because of Carrot Farm posted a news on the same date, introducing her before the planned announcement through the concert with the rest.

She was then also announced during 5th EVENT ARENA TOUR GO BEYOND on day two of the third leg, YELL, which took place on February 4th, 2024.

While she shows a stoic and determined persona during concerts and races, she has a much more upbeat, friendly, and cheerful demeanor around her friends, especially towards Team Ascella.

Rhein Kraft attributes Cesario's multifaceted demeanor as a kind of "on and off switch".

This likely serves as an allusion to her namesake being a character from Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy play by William Shakespeare, in which Viola, the main protagonist and heroine, disguises herself as a young man named Cesario.

Twelfth Night is alluded to several times, including via direct quotes, during Cesario's character story.

Cesario and Symboli Kris S are the first real-life mare and stallion pairing having their foal made into an Umamusume, being Epiphaneia.

Her love for collecting fève is a nod to this relation to Epiphaneia, as a fève is a trinket inside of a king cake, usually taking the form of a plastic or porcelain figure of a baby meant to be collected.

King cake is celebrated on Epiphany, also known as Three Kings' Day, which is what Epiphaneia is named after.

She is not easily scared of horror movies.

She tends to make supportive banners for the young Umamusume in racing clubs.

Cesario's love and care for young Umamusume is likely a reference to her successful career as a broodmare in real life, as she became the third mare in JRA history to have three G1-winning children.

As Cesario was sired by Special Week in real life, there are four-leaf clovers on her racewear, much like Special Week's racewear.

This motif is also present on Buena Vista, Epiphaneia and Efforia's respective racewear.

Although Efforia has the motif, it is designed differently from the characters mentioned above.

Which is an indicator that while Efforia is a descendant of Special Week in real life, Efforia is only related via the sire-line as Special Week is Efforia's paternal great-grandfather.

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