Mirco Demuro

Mirco Demuro, born on 11 January 1979, is an Italian jockey based in Japan, and his brother Cristian, his sister Pamela and their late father Giovanni were also jockeys. He earned his licence in 1994, was Italy's leading jockey from 1997 to 2000, and first rode in Japan in 1999. In 2003 he won the Satsuki Sho and the Tokyo Yushun on Neo Universe, the first foreign jockey to win the Japanese Derby, and in 2011 he won the Dubai World Cup on Victoire Pisa, the first win by a Japanese horse in that race. He won the Arima Kinen, the Japan Cup and the Takarazuka Kinen, and in 2015 he and Christophe Lemaire became the first foreign jockeys to pass the exam for a full-time Japan Racing Association licence.