titleholder (racehorse)

Real Life Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. Sired by Duramente and foaled by Mowen. He is a bay horse with a stripe slanted over the right side of his face and pasterns on his right legs and his back left leg. He is Melody Lane's normal-sized younger brother and is famed for his front-runner running style even as a Stayer (long-distance runner).

One of the dominant colts of the 2021 generation, he is the winner of the 2021 Kikuka Sho, becoming the first to win this race as a front-runner since Seiun Sky in 1998. He would later win the 2022 Spring Tenno Sho and the 2022 Takarazuka Kinen but, after a failed bet at l'Arc, he would eventually face Equinox's ascendence, and then injury at the 2023 Spring Tenno Sho. He would return for the Autumn season but never at his previous peak. He retired after his last race at the 2023 Arima Kinen, where he finished 3rd.

In the context of Umamusume, he, or a horse girl version of himself, is often depicted with his RL sire Duramente or with fellow Erimo native Daring Tact (especially when it involves fighting bears). Alternatively, Titleholder (horse or horse girl) is often depicted with Melody Lane or with his contemporaries, Efforia and Shahryar.