Tetsuya Kimura

Tetsuya Kimura is one of those figures from the horse racing world who lets the results do all the talking — and honestly, I respect that more than any flashy self-promotion. The horse racing world is brutally unforgiving; you don't survive in it on luck alone. There's a quiet craftsman energy about him — an architecture graduate who started as a groom, worked his way up to trainer, and has since saddled sixteen Grade 1 winners. Anyone who carves out a career in professional racing that way commands genuine respect from me. That kind of grit doesn't need a press release.

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Tetsuya Kimura is a Japanese racehorse trainer born on November 16, 1972, in Kanagawa Prefecture. He is listed in the Japanese celebrity database and has a Wikipedia entry dedicated to his career in horse racing. After studying architecture at Kanagawa University, he became a groom in 2000 and passed the trainer's exam in December 2010; he trains at the Miho Training Center and has won 16 Grade 1 races.

Name (English)

Tetsuya Kimura

Name (Japanese)

木村哲也

Reading

きむら てつや

Born

November 16, 1972 (age 53)

Origin

Japan

Occupation

Horse Trainer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E6%9D%91%E5%93%B2%E4%B9%9F%20(%E7%AB%B6%E9%A6%AC)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56059642

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Last updated

October 18, 2026

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