Yūji Iida

Yūji Iida rode as a jockey for years, and honestly that word alone should earn anyone a little quiet respect — riding thoroughbreds at full sprint while keeping your bodyweight somewhere most of us left behind in middle school is not a glamorous hustle, it's a grind that demands obsessive discipline every single day. He did the work in the saddle, then took over his father's stable as a trainer in 2014 and let the track record speak. There's something genuinely admirable about a career built in silence like that.

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Yūji Iida is a Japanese racehorse trainer and former jockey born on November 18, 1974, in Rittō, Shiga Prefecture. He is identified in the Scorpio zodiac sign and the Year of the Tiger in the traditional East Asian calendar. He debuted as a jockey in 1993 with his father Akihiro's stable and took over that stable as a trainer in 2014.

Name (English)

Yūji Iida

Name (Japanese)

飯田祐史

Reading

いいだ ゆうじ

Born

November 18, 1974 (age 51)

Origin

Rittō, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Jockey

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A3%AF%E7%94%B0%E7%A5%90%E5%8F%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11666579

Tags

• jockey

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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