Yasuhiro Nemoto

Honestly, jockeys don't get nearly enough credit, and Yasuhiro Nemoto is exactly the kind of quietly extraordinary person that makes me think about that. Born in Tokyo in 1956 — a Aquarius, Year of the Monkey — he came up in an era when Japanese horse racing was carving out its modern identity, and making it as a jockey means you spent your life coaxing half a ton of pure animal instinct around a track at full gallop while keeping your own weight in check and your nerve ice-cold. The details on his record are sparse, but that almost fits — riders like this tend to let the work speak, no flashy Instagram presence, no hype machine. There's something about a career spent in the saddle, in the dirt and the early mornings, that earns a kind of silent respect from me that no press release ever could.

Yasuhiro Nemoto is a Japanese jockey born on January 31, 1956, in Tokyo, Japan. He is classified under the equestrian racing profession and falls under the zodiac sign Aquarius, born in the Year of the Monkey. Detailed career records and personal information remain private or are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Yasuhiro Nemoto

Name (Japanese)

根本康広

Reading

ねもと やすひろ

Born

January 31, 1956 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Year of the Monkey

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Jockey

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A0%B9%E6%9C%AC%E5%BA%B7%E5%BA%83

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Jockey

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.