Yūji Iida

Yūji Iida is a jockey, 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 just does the work, gets on the horse, and lets 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 jockey born on November 18, 1974. He is identified in the Scorpio zodiac sign and the Year of the Tiger in the traditional East Asian calendar. His prefecture of origin and most personal details are not publicly disclosed. He is active in Japanese horse racing.

Name (English)

Yūji Iida

Name (Japanese)

飯田祐史

Reading

いいだ ゆうじ

Born

November 18, 1974 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Origin

Japan

Occupation

Jockey

• 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

2026-06-02

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