Hisashi Shimizu

Hisashi Shimizu is one of those figures in the racing world who you'd never see on the front page of a sports tabloid, and honestly that's kind of the point. Born in Osaka in 1972, he's spent his career in the quieter trenches of the sport — the barn before dawn, the slow patient work of reading a horse and figuring out exactly what it needs to run its best on race day. Trainers don't get the glory that jockeys do, but anyone who actually follows the horses knows the trainer's fingerprints are all over every result. There's a real craftsman quality to that kind of work, and I find it genuinely compelling. The details on his personal life are basically sealed tight, which in this era of oversharing feels almost refreshing. Let the horses do the talking.

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Hisashi Shimizu is a Japanese racehorse trainer born on July 4, 1972, in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Based at the JRA's Ritto Training Center, he won his first Grade 1 with Kitasan Black in the 2015 Kikuka Sho and took the Caulfield Cup in Australia with Mer de Glace in 2019.

Name (English)

Hisashi Shimizu

Name (Japanese)

清水久詞

Reading

しみず ひさし

Born

July 4, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Horse trainer (Racehorse trainer)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E6%B0%B4%E4%B9%85%E8%A9%9E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11560784

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Horse trainer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.