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Trainer Naoya Nakamura reaches 100 JRA wins
Trainer Naoya Nakamura reached 100 JRA wins on October 18 at Kyoto Racecourse.
His horse Award Dreams won the first race, a maiden contest for two-year-olds over 1,200 metres on dirt.
The milestone came after 1,228 races since Nakamura's first runner in March 2022.
He is the 140th active trainer to reach 100 wins in Japan's central horse-racing system.
Nakamura has also won five graded races, including the Chukyo Kinen this year.
He credited owners, stable staff, jockeys, breeders and the horses, and said he would keep focusing on each horse and aiming for better results.
Trainer Naoya Nakamura reached 100 career wins in Japan’s JRA races on October 18.
His horse Award Dreams won Kyoto Race 1, a two-year-old maiden race.
The win came in Nakamura’s 1,228th race and made him the 140th active trainer to reach the milestone.
Nakamura has also recorded five JRA graded-stakes wins.
He thanked owners, farm staff, stable staff, jockeys, other people involved and the horses.
- Who
- Trainer Naoya Nakamura, 48, and his horse Award Dreams.
- What
- Nakamura recorded his 100th JRA win when Award Dreams won Kyoto Race 1.
- When
- October 18, 2026.
- Where
- Kyoto Racecourse, Japan.
- Why
- Award Dreams won the two-year-old maiden race, giving Nakamura his 100th career JRA victory.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Nakamura had his first JRA starter, Riole, which finished 13th in Hanshin Race 1.
Award Dreams won Kyoto Race 1, giving Nakamura his 100th JRA victory in his 1,228th race.
- JRA wins
- 100
- Race
- Kyoto Race 1, two-year-old maiden
- Winning horse
- Award Dreams
- Races to milestone
- 1,228
- Active trainers to reach 100 wins
- 140th
- JRA graded-stakes wins
- 5
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What people are saying
I believe not a single win was achieved through my own efforts alone.
I am grateful to the horses that have worked so hard up to this point.