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My Take
Takayuki Yasuda is the kind of guy horse racing quietly forgets to celebrate loudly enough. He rode 680 winners as a jockey, but the moment that defines him is 1991 — steering Tokai Teio through both the Satsuki Sho and the Tokyo Yushun (the Japanese Derby) and later saying the horse was his whole life because it had carried him into the spotlight. That's not a press line; that's a man who genuinely felt it. Then he failed his trainer's exam five times, passed on the sixth, and came back to rack up 20 Grade 1 victories over three decades on the other side of the rail. First in Japanese history to cross 600 wins as both jockey and trainer. He retired on his 71st birthday in March 2024. Quietly perfect.
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Overview
Takayuki Yasuda is a retired Japanese jockey and racehorse trainer born on March 5, 1953, in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. As a jockey he won 680 races, including the 1991 Satsuki Sho and Tokyo Yushun on Tokai Teio; as a trainer at the Ritto Training Center from 1994 until his retirement in March 2024, he won 20 Grade 1 races with horses such as Lord Kanaloa and Curren Chan.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Takayuki Yasuda
- Name (Japanese)
- 安田隆行
- Reading
- やすだ たかゆき
- Born
- March 5, 1953 (age 73)
- Origin
- Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- Jockey
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Snake
2. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E7%94%B0%E9%9A%86%E8%A1%8C
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9128102
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.
Frequently asked questions
When was Takayuki Yasuda born?
Takayuki Yasuda was born on March 5, 1953 and is 73 years old.
Where is Takayuki Yasuda from?
Takayuki Yasuda is from Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
What does Takayuki Yasuda do?
Takayuki Yasuda works as Jockey.
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