Takuma Itō

The life of a jockey is one of the most punishing grinds in professional sport — obsessive weight management, thousands of hours building trust with animals that outweigh you by half a ton — and almost none of that brutal work is ever visible to the crowd. Ito needed 89 rides for his first win while his classmate Kosei Miura was breaking records, and in 2012 he won the Capital Stakes on the least-fancied horse in the field at odds of 397.4, which honestly just reinforces the impression of someone who lets the ride do the talking. I find that kind of quiet discipline more compelling than any press circuit. Rooting for him to put up some big results.

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Takuma Itō is a Japanese jockey born on February 26, 1990. He competes in professional horse racing in Japan. From Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture, he debuted in 2008 at the Miho Training Center, won the 2010 All-Japan Rookie Jockeys title, reached 100 JRA wins in 2018 and holds licences for both flat and jump racing.

Name (English)

Takuma Itō

Name (Japanese)

伊藤工真

Reading

いとう たくま

Born

February 26, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Jockey

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%E5%B7%A5%E7%9C%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11380062

Tags

• Jockey

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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