Kosei Miura, voted Japan's ‘best newcomer jockey' of 2008 in a national poll, is heading for Newmarket and a three-week spell with Sir Mark Prescott's stable.
A lengthy visa application process has delayed the arrival of Miura, 19, who has been dubbed ‘the next Yutaka Take' after a sensational start to his riding career last year, but he has been cleared to join Prescott on Tuesday week[September 8].
Prescott has planned a low-key visit for Miura, who has quickly received the sort of media attention afforded to Take, not least because of a rumoured relationship with magazine pin-up Hoshino Aki, who is 13 years his senior.
However, Miura's trip is expected to give him racecourse, as well as gallops, experience in England.
Since Miura's visit was first revealed in the Racing Post last month, he has lifted himself from 14th to ninth place in the Japan jockeys' table, with 61 winners from 588 rides.
Having received his first licence from the Japan Racing Association in March last year, he finished the term ninth on the riders' list. His total of 91 winners smashed Take's first-season record of 69, set in 1987, and in February this year Miura took the same internationally-acclaimed jockey's record for the fastest century by a newcomer.
在來英之後的三星期..
三浦將跟隨練馬師 Sir Mark Prescott
他會在新市場上陣,試閘..體驗英國賽馬
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