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So, why exactly are Uma Musume: Pretty Derby players sending massive amounts of grass to a retired Japanese race horse?


Uma Musume: Pretty Derby fanatics have come out en masse to send packages of delicious ryegrass to their favourite horse from the game: Haru Urara.

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby fanatics have come out en masse to send packages of delicious ryegrass to their favourite horse from the game: Haru Urara. Uma Musume, if you're not in the know, is an extremely popular gacha game that is getting more players by the day: over the weekend, it enjoyed over 50,000 concurrents on Steam alone (notable, since the vast majorioty of the playerbase is on mobile). An exceptionally popular gacha game available on both mobile and PC, many players who have yet to nab one of the rarer horses have nonetheless been having a blast with Haru and the other basic characters.

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