Kazuo Yokoyama

Kazuo Yokoyama, born on 23 March 1993, is a Japanese jockey from a racing family: his grandfather Tomio and father Norihiro were jockeys, as is his younger brother Takeshi. He earned his Japan Racing Association licence after graduating from the Horse Racing School in 2011, raced against his father for the first time in a maiden race at Nakayama on 5 March 2011, and won his first race at Niigata on 30 April with Laurel Cantata after 27 starts. In 2022 he won his first Grade I race, the Tenno Sho (Spring) on Titleholder, making his family three generations of winners of that race, and the same year won the Takarazuka Kinen on Titleholder, another race his grandfather and father had won.