2023 was a successful year for trainer Haruki Sugiyama with 55 wins, and he was crowned the leading JRA trainer for 2023. His seasonal highlights included training Justin Palace to win the G1 Tenno Sho (Spring).

International sensation Yoshito Yahagi claimed second with 51 wins and Mitsumasa Nakauchida came in third with 48 wins.

Here is a full list of top 20 JRA trainers for 2023:

Placing, Name, 1st-2nd-3rd-Number of runners, Total earnings
1st Haruki Sugiyama 55-49-30-359 1,560,066,000 JPY
2nd Yoshito Yahagi 51-42-40-507 1,102,060,000 JPY
3rd Mitsumasa Nakauchida 48-33-24-236 1,742,650,000 JPY
4th Tetsuya Kimura 44-24-23-211 1,864,130,000 JPY
5th Yasuo Tomomichi 41-39-36-288 1,820,032,000 JPY
6th Sakae Kunieda 41-30-22-289 807,414,000 JPY
7th Hiroyuki Uemura 40-29-21-235 863,674,000 JPY
8th Hisashi Shimizu 39-31-43-479 855,280,000 JPY
9th Noriyuki Hori 38-30-22-225 1,414,160,000 JPY
10th Tatsuya Yoshioka 38-20-23-247 567,809,000 JPY
11th Makoto Saito 37-26-30-376 697,123,000 JPY
12th Tomokazu Takano 36-31-23-260 1,068,575,000 JPY
13th Yasutoshi Ikee 35-38-32-305 1,366,990,000 JPY
14th Masato Nishizono 34-26-21-319 608,416,000 JPY
15th Takahisa Tezuka 33-38-43-338 1,173,081,000 JPY
16th Yuichi Shikato 33-34-24-289 711,826,000 JPY
17th Shinsuke Hashiguchi 33-24-26-273 604,528,000 JPY
18th Hideaki Fujiwara 33-18-28-286 643,525,000 JPY
19th Ryo Takei 32-33-27-290 612,828,000 JPY
20th Koshiro Take 32-32-27-269 678,870,000 JPY

Data Creds: JRA website