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The Singapore Turf Club has granted a one-day licence to Japanese jockey Satoshi Yonekura to ride at the Kranji Mile meeting on May 25.

Yonekura has been booked by trainer Stephen Gray and Japanese connections to ride No Fun No Gain in the Group 1 Singapore Guineas. 

Currently licensed with the National Association Of Racing (NAR), Japan, Yonekura, 42, has ridden around 1,500 winners in 25 years of riding, including the Korean Group 3 KNN Cup on Supreme Magic 2016 as a career highlight and many class races on the NAR circuit.  

Overseas, he rode with success in Busan, South Korea during a two-year stint between April 2016 and May 2018, booting home 90 winners, including seven winners in one day on 31 December 2016. 

Yonekura goes to scale at 50kgs.