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Mitsumasa Nakauchida
Age: 46
Background:
Mitsumasa Nakauchida has spent his entire life around horses after being born on a pre-training farm in Western Japan and, at the age of 16, he left Japan and went to Ireland, the United Kingdom, France and the United States of America to learn about training horses, before returning to his homeland and commencing work as a groom for the Mitsuru Hashida stable in 2007. He obtained his JRA trainer’s licence in 2012 and has won the JRA Award four times, for the highest winning percentage, in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022. He won three Group 1 races in 2023 with Liberty Island, the seventh winner of Japan’s Triple Tiara. In 2024, he won the G2 Kinko Sho with Prognosis, who also placed second in the QEII Cup at Sha Tin and second in Australia’s W.S. Cox Plate last October behind Viva Sistina. This year, he has won Group 2 races with Queen’s Walk and Lord del Rey.
Achievements:
2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022 JRA Best Trainer (Winning Percentage).
Notable Wins Include:
Yushun Himba (2023 Liberty Island), Oka Sho (2023 Liberty Island), Shuka Sho (2023 Liberty Island), Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (2017 Danon Premium, 2020 Grenadier Guards), Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (2018 Danon Fantasy, 2022 Liberty Island), Mile Championship (2022 Serifos).
Hong Kong wins (as of 10 April):
0

23/24 Season
Stakes won : $7,140,000 No. of Wins : 0 Total Runners : 3
No. of 2nds : 1 Win % : 0.00%
No. of 3rds : 0
No. of 4ths : 0

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