Makoto Sugihara

A jockey born on Halloween — honestly, that's too on-brand. Jockeys don't get nearly enough credit: you're talking about controlling a 500-kilogram animal at full sprint while reading the race, feeling the field, and making split-second calls that can win or lose everything in under two minutes. It's athletic and mental and almost meditative all at once. Makoto Sugihara strikes me as the type who doesn't need the spotlight — he's the kind of professional who just shows up, puts the work in, and lets the track do the talking. He fell for the sport as a kid watching Daiwa Major win the Tenno Sho from the stands, and his debut was pushed back by the 2011 earthquake before he finally got going, and that grind-in-silence energy is something I genuinely respect. Here's hoping he keeps finding his stride out there.

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Makoto Sugihara is a Japanese jockey born on October 31, 1992, in Saitama Prefecture. Based at the Japan Racing Association's Miho Training Center, he debuted in 2011 with the stable of trainer Kazuo Fujisawa and won the All-Japan Rookie Jockey Championship in 2013.

Name (English)

Makoto Sugihara

Name (Japanese)

杉原誠人

Reading

すぎはら まこと

Born

October 31, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Jockey

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E5%8E%9F%E8%AA%A0%E4%BA%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11521788

Tags

• From Saitama Prefecture
• Jockey

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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