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My Take
Honestly, every time I think about what jockeys actually do for a living, I feel a little embarrassed about my own complaints. Katsuma Sameshima — born in 1996, still in his twenties — straps himself onto a half-ton animal and charges at sixty-plus kilometers per hour while keeping his own body whittled down to a weight most people would consider a bad week of dieting. That's the deal jockeys make: starve a little, be fearless a lot, and sync your entire nervous system with a creature that doesn't speak your language. We don't have a ton of public detail on Katsuma's biography, but the gig itself says enough. Every race is a negotiation between rider and horse happening in fractions of a second, and the fact that he's out there doing it regularly puts him in a category of quiet toughness I genuinely respect. I'm rooting for this guy.
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Overview
Katsuma Sameshima is a Japanese professional jockey born on October 18, 1996. He competes in thoroughbred horse racing in Japan and maintains an Instagram presence under his own name. From Saga Prefecture, he is based at the Ritto Training Center, debuted in March 2015, and reached 500 JRA wins in August 2024.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Katsuma Sameshima
- Name (Japanese)
- 鮫島克駿
- Reading
- さめしま かつま
- Born
- October 18, 1996 (age 30)
- Origin
- Japan
- Occupation
- Jockey
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Rat
2. Links
3. About this entry
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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.
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When was Katsuma Sameshima born?
Katsuma Sameshima was born on October 18, 1996 and is 30 years old.
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Katsuma Sameshima works as Jockey.
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