A Multiple Champion jockey Yutaka Take is a national celebrity in Japan. A son of the legendary jockey Kunihiko Take, Take has been Japan’s Champion jockey on 18 occasions. He has ridden more than 4000 winners in a star studded 30 year career and is best remembered worldwide for his association with the great Deep Impact whom he won the Japanese Triple Crown on in 2005. Take has more than 100 Group 1 wins to his credit and overall in excess of 300 Graded races in Japan. He has won the Japan Cup on four occasions on Special Week (1999) Deep Impact (2006) Rose Kingdom (2010) and again this year with a brilliant all the way win on Kitasan Black. Other great horses that Take has been associated with have been Agnes World, Stay Gold, Lani and more recently A Shin Hikari the spectacular winner of the 2015 Hong Kong Cup.
