Yuga Kawada

Yuga Kawada came from a racing family, and that background invites the lazy assumption that the road was paved for him. Horses do not run faster for a famous surname. Born in 1985, he finished 2022 as the Japan Racing Association's leading jockey, a title you can only earn one race at a time across a full year of travel, weight management and physical risk. What I notice most is his tone afterward. He rarely sounds triumphant; he sounds like a professional describing a job that went to plan. Since 2016 he has been managed by Horipro, which reads to me like a rider insisting his craft be treated as a career.

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Name (English)

Yuga Kawada

Name (Japanese)

川田将雅

Reading

かわだ ゆうが

Born

October 15, 1985 (age 41)

Occupation

jockey

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga%20Kawada
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E7%94%B0%E5%B0%86%E9%9B%85
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11478996

Tags

• 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.