Jockey Records 3,000th Win – Yutaka Take

Japanese Yutaka Take raced to his 3,000th Japan Racing Association (JRA) win…the first to reach the milestone.

The 38-year old has been riding since March 1987, lemme see, that would have made him 20 at the time.

It took him 8 years to get to 1,000 and 7 more years to reach 2,000….He was the youngest ever to reach that milestone.

He passed the JRA record of 2,943 wins set by 59-year old former

jockey Yukio Okabe who is now retired.

The all-time record for racing wins in Japan is 7,151 victories.

Yutaka has about 3 wins a week average over the past 20 years. If he rides another 20…he'll make it to about 6,000 victories.

Guess he'll have to pick up the pace.

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