Cheval Grand

* Uniform
* Anime

“*...I'll surely achieve it someday. I, too, will...!*”
―Cheval Grand

**Cheval Grand** (シュヴァルグラン, *Shuvaru Guran*) is a character in **Uma Musume: Pretty Derby**.

## Personality

A quiet introvert who has a middle child complex regarding the talent and achievements of her older and younger sisters. But believing that she'll one day surpass them, Cheval Grand spends her days working hard to have her abilities recognised. Cheval Grand does not get along with her sisters.... not that they're on bad terms but the other two have a flamboyant temperament so when they're together, she somewhat feels out of it.

## Relationships

* **Kitasan Black**:
	+ **IRL**: Fought several times.
	+ **Matches**(CG/KB):
		- 2016 Tenno Sho Spring 3rd/1st
		- 2016 Takarazuka Kinen 9th/3rd (1st: Marialite)
		- 2016 Japan Cup 3rd/1st
		- 2017 Tenno Sho Spring 2nd/1st
		- 2017 Takarazuka Kinen 8th/9th (1st: Satono Crown)
		- 2017 Japan Cup 1st/3rd
		- 2017 Arima Kinen 3rd/1st
* **Satono Diamond**:
	+ **IRL**: Fought several times.
	+ **Matches**(CG/SD):
		- 2017 Hanshin Dai Shoten 2nd/1st
		- 2017 Tenno Sho Spring 2nd/3rd
		- 2018 Osaka Hai 13th/7th (1st: Suave Richard)
		- 2018 Kyoto Dai Shoten 4th/1st
		- 2018 Japan Cup 4th/6th (1st: Almond Eye)
		- 2018 Arima Kinen 3rd/6th (1st: Blast Onepiece)
* **Satono Crown**:
	+ **IRL**: Fought several times.
	+ **Matches**(CG/SC):
		- 2016 Takarazuka Kinen 9th/6th (1st: Marialite)
		- 2017 Takarazuka Kinen 8th/1st
		- 2017 Japan Cup 1st/10th
		- 2017 Arima Kinen 3rd/13th (1st: Kitasan Black)
		- 2018 Japan Cup 4th/9th (1st: Almond Eye)
* **Verxina**: Elder sister.
	+ **IRL**: Elder sister.
* **Vivlos**: Younger sister.
	+ **IRL**: Younger sister.

## Songs

* DRAMATIC JOURNEY
* Umapyoi Densetsu

## Trivia

* One of her hobby is fishing.
* In the anime, she often holds a *fork* in her hand.
* When her profile was announced, her sisters were also suggested. Later they appeared in anime season 3.

## Basic profile

### Racing silk

Skyblue, white sleeves with blue two hoops, blue saw

## Family

### Relatives

Verxina (half-sister)
Vivlos (half-sister)

## Racing Info

### Jockeys

Yuichi Fukunaga, 16 times
Hiroyuki Uchida, 5 times
Christophe Lemaire, 2 times
Mirco Demuro, 1 time
Hugh Bowman, 5 times
Kosei Miura, 1 time
Cristian Demuro, 1 time
Oisin Murphy, 2 times
Christophe Soumillon, 1 time

## Result

### Major wins

2016 Hanshin Dai Shoten, G2
2016 Copa Republica Argentina, G2
2017 Japan Cup, G1

“'*Elder sister Verxina, younger sister Vivlos', the commentator mentioned,
This was the moment that he had been a match for his sisters, who he held a complex for, defeating his contemporary.*”
―Yuuhi Hattori (Kansai TV)
**Cheval Grand** is a racehorse in the 2010s. He had ran for a long time and won the Japan Cup defeating Kitasan Black.

### Name Origin

* Cheval grand ― "Great sire" in French. Many of Kazuhiro Sasaki's horses has "V" in their names.

* His owner is Kazuhiro "Dai Majin" Sasaki, a former baseball player in Yokohama Baystars and Seattle Mariners.
	+ He and his sisters are known as "silver collectors". Fans joke Sasaki has relations with "2", because his uniform number is 22.
	+ Sasaki has a great skill of forkball. Some of "fork" jokes in horse girl Cheval Grand refers to it.
	+ One of Sasaki's hobby is fishing. In 2023, he won the fourth prize at the Ibaraki International Fishing Festival, fishing a 101kg-weighed swordfish. horse girl Cheval Grand also refers to this episode.
* Though he could win only one G1, he was often placed and earned little by little. His earnings 113 million JPY is the most in Japanese one G1 winners, surpassing Meisho Doto.

## References

1. ↑ シュヴァルグラン〜ＧⅠ初制覇までの足跡～【ウマ娘大好きアナがストーリーを大胆予想！】＜ウマ娘ヲタアナＲＯＯＭ＃７＞ (YouTube)
2. ↑  “大魔神”佐々木主浩氏がカジキ釣り国際大会で4位「打者に向かう気持ちのまま」101キロ釣る (Nikkan Sports)