| Lemaire, Christophe |
| Age: 46 |
| Background: Christophe Lemaire leapt to prominence in 2004 thanks to his partnership with the brilliant French champion filly Divine Proportions and two years later he rode the crack mare Pride to win the Champion Stakes and Hong Kong Cup. Other top-class winners in those days include Stacelita, Makfi, Flotilla and Elusive Wave, while Dunaden carried him to a 2011 Melbourne Cup win. His first Japanese major came a few years earlier aboard Heart’s Cry in the 2005 Arima Kinen and the duo took the 2006 Dubai Sheema Classic. Star mare Vodka’s Japan Cup – one of four wins for Lemaire in the race – is also among his 60-plus Group 1 wins to date. In early 2015 he and Mirco Demuro became the first overseas riders to be granted full-time jockey licences in Japan. In 2016, he equalled the record of the great Yutaka Take for the most wins at a single Japanese race meeting with eight victories. In 2017 he became the first foreigner to be crowned Japan’s leading jockey, winning 199 Japan Racing Association (JRA) races. In 2023, he not only won the JRA Championship but also broke the record in terms of prize money. In that year he won four Group 1 races aboard legendary galloper Equinox. In 2025 he became the first jockey to win the Kikuka Sho three years in a row. He also won the 2025 Shuka Sho with Embroidery and Tenno Sho Autumn with Masquerade Ball. His other three Japan Cup wins came atop Almond Eye (2018 & 2019) and Equinox (2023). |
| Honours: JRA Champion Jockey for Races Won (2017-21, 2023 & 2024); International Jockeys’ Championship winner (2009 [DH]). |
| IJC record: 2018 – 10th (DH); 2012 – 10th (DH); 2011 – 3rd; 2010 – 6th; 2009 – WON (DH); 2008 – 2nd |
| 25/26 Season Up to Race Meeting of 07/12/2025 | |||||
| Nationality | : FR | No. of Wins | : 0 | Total Rides | : 0 |
| Stakes won | : - | No. of 2nds | : 0 | Win % | : 0.00% |
| No. of Wins in past 10 race days | : 0 | No. of 3rds | : 0 | ||
| No. of 4ths | : 0 | ||||
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