Ryuto Yokoyama

Honestly, the moment I hear "jockey" I'm already impressed — like, riding a several-hundred-kilogram animal at full sprint, cutting your body weight to the absolute limit, making split-second decisions in a world measured in hundredths of a second? That's not a sport, that's a whole lifestyle of quiet sacrifice most people wouldn't last a week in. Ryuto Yokoyama was born in 2003 in Ibaraki, which means he stepped into that brutal world basically as a teenager, while most of us his age were still figuring out how to do laundry. I don't know his full race record yet, but I don't need to. A young kid from Ibaraki putting in early mornings, strict weigh-ins, and daily work with animals that could seriously hurt him? That alone earns my respect. Quietly rooting for him to make a real name for himself.

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Ryuto Yokoyama is a Japanese professional jockey born on January 8, 2003, in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Based at the JRA's Miho Training Center with trainer Kaoru Aizawa's stable since his 2021 debut, he rides on both the flat and over jumps, following his father, the former jump jockey Yoshiyuki Yokoyama.

Name (English)

Ryuto Yokoyama

Name (Japanese)

横山琉人

Reading

よこやま りゅうと

Born

January 8, 2003 (age 23)

Origin

Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Height

160 cm

Occupation

Jockey

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1%E7%90%89%E4%BA%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126005912

Tags

• From Ibaraki Prefecture
• Jockey

Last updated

November 2, 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.