Gold Ship

“*Hey, it's me, Gold Ship! Peace! ...So, who wants to get beat up?*”
―Gold Ship

* Uniform
* Secondary
* Anime
* Game

**Gold Ship** (ゴールドシップ, *Gōrudo Shippu*) is a character in **Uma Musume: Pretty Derby**.

The well-known trickster who gets faster when the finish line is close. She is the oldest member in Team Spica.

## Personality

Contrary to her appearance, she is an ill-mannered, coarse and easygoing horse girl. She is quite stubborn and has a violently sharp tongue. She often jests around and rarely takes races or training seriously. Other than that, she loves pulling off harmless pranks on others especially Mejiro McQueen. She is known to be reckless, often accidentally poking her eye onto random objects.

## Appearance

She is a horse girl with divine, distinguished beauty. Her hair is silver-gray, slightly passing her waist. She wears a hat connected to a strap similar to a headstall. She has rosewood eyes.

## Relationships

* **Mejiro McQueen**: Teammate, both in anime and game story mode. Gold Ship often pranks McQueen, but sometimes she cheers McQueen up when she depresses.
	+ **IRL**: Broodmare sire. McQueen died in 2006, and GolShi was born in 2009. So they actually didn't meet together.
* **Tosen Jordan**: Opponent in game scenario. Gold Ship always tricks her. It is unclear whether GolShi likes Jordan. In PakaTube, She acts as if she didn't know Jordan.
	+ **IRL**: Three years older. It is said GolShi hated Jordan.
	+ **Match** (GS/TJ)
		- 2013 Japan Cup 15th/3rd (1st: Gentildonna)
		- 2013 Arima Kinen 3rd/14th (1st: Orfevre)
		- 2014 Takarazuka Kinen 1st/8th

* **Eishin Flash**: Opponent in game scenario.
	+ **IRL**: Two years older. He fought with Gold Ship twice.
	+ **Match** (GS/EF)
		- 2012 Arima Kinen 1st/4th
		- 2013 Japan Cup 15th/10th (1st: Gentildonna)
* **Nakayama Festa**: Friend. They often plays games.
	+ **IRL**: Stay Gold's foals. Both have temper issues. They have run at l'Arc.

## Songs

* Goal To My SHIP (Solo song)
* Paka Tube! desu ga, Nani ka? (Solo song)
* Bokura no Bluebird Days
* Make Debut!
* Grow Up Shine!
* Find My Only Way
* Hashire Uma Musume
* Special Record!
* Yume o Kakeru
* Enjoy and Join
* winning the soul
* GIRLS' LEGEND U
* Never Looking Back
* We are DREAMERS!!
* Egao no Takaramono -Beyond The Future!-
* Gaze on Me
* Precious Star Dreamer
* Umapyoi Densetsu

## Special Commentary

皐月と菊に続き、グランプリレースでも
見事金メダルをもぎ取りました！
 Gold Ship!
Next to Satsuki and Kikka,
He took the gold medal in the Grand Prix race!

* Requirement: Winning classic Arima Kinen after winning Satsuki and Kikka Sho
* Reference: 2012 Arima Kinen, by Yoji Funayama (Radio NIKKEI)

### Notes

* In 2012, Japanese players got 38 medals at London Olympic. Because of this, "金 (Gold)" became the Kanji of the Year. Real-life commentary referred to that.

## Trivia

* She has her own YouTube channel called **PakaTube** (ぱかチューブっ!).
* She seems to like hot mustard.
* She always seems to be trying to solve a Rubik's cube during the times she isn't racing.
* One of the most iconic Gold Ship incident, "12 billion yen rear" was reenacted in the third OVA episode of Season 1 of the anime. So are Junko's shouts.
* In a training story, Gold Ship is lead by someone's voice into a "golden journey".
* She's never states what year she's in and its impossible to tell.
* Most of her in-game lines are like ad-libbed.
* 564 means "GolShi" in goroawase (Japanese wordplay).

## Basic profile

### Nickname

GolShi
Unsinkable Battleship
*Ichigo Daifuku*
White Guy

### Racing silk

Red, white hoop, white sleeves with red hoop

## Family

### Children

Uberleben
Win Kiitos

## Racing Info

### Jockeys

Shinichiro Akiyama, 2 times
Katsumi Ando, 2 times
Hiroyuki Uchida, 12 times
Ryan Moore, 1 time
Yasunari Iwata, 4 times
Craig Williams, 1 time
Norihiro Yokoyama, 6 times

## Result

### Major wins

2012 Kyodo Tsushin Hai, G3
2012 Satsuki Sho, G1
2012 Kobe Shimbun Hai, G2
2012 Kikka Sho, G1
2012 Arima Kinen, G1
2013 Hanshin Dai Shoten, G1
2013 Takarazuka Kinen, G1
2013 Kyoto Dai Shoten, G2
2014 Hanshin Dai Shoten, G2
2014 Takarazuka Kinen, G1
2015 Hanshin Dai Shoten, G2
2015 Tenno Sho Spring, G1

### Honors

2012 JRA Award for Best 3-year-old Colt

“*He showed the overwhelming strength!
And Norihiro Yokoyama smiles!
Norihiro Yokoyama had ridden on him when training for three weeks.
He said he wants to respect the horse's feelings.
Gold Ship really seemed to run feeling good.
It's like the horse and the rider unite as one indeed!
It's an amazing victory!*”
―2014 Takarazuka Kinen, by Yusuke Ohashi (Kansai TV)

**Gold Ship** is a racehorse in the 2010s. His strength and eccentric behaviors called lots of fans.

* Gold Ship's father Stay Gold's Hong Kong name is 黄金旅程 (Golden Journey). It is suitable for his career so many of his children have includes words about gold or journey. Gold Ship is one of those names.
* During 2015 Takarazuka Kinen, Gold Ship reared right when the gates opened and finished second last despite his popularity. The incident is called the "12.1 billion rear" since fans betted a total sum of 12.1 billion yen on Gold Ship winning the race, which of course all went to waste.
	+ At that moment, commentator Junko Hosoe shouted twice unwillingly. In the anime, she acted twice more.
* Gold Ship was always trying to kick Tosen Jordan because he hated him. He didn't like Jordan allegedly because he behaved like a boss in Ritto Training Center.

## Notes

1. ↑ For example, other "Stay-Mc Nicks" children were Dream Journey and Orfevre (goldsmith in French).

## References

1. ↑ JRA Official (YouTube)
2. ↑ Kansai TV Official (YouTube)
3. ↑ Wikipedia