Type: Visiting Jockey

Nationality: BRZ

Background:
Age: 42. Brazilian sensation Joao Moreira, known as "Magic Man", notched more than 2,500 wins all over the world. He relocated to Singapore in 2009 and was a dominant four-time champion jockey. He moved to Hong Kong in October of 2013 and was runner-up in the title race that term with 97 wins before clinching a first championship in a record smashing 2014/15 campaign that yielded an all-time high 145 wins - he demolished that record in 2015/16 with 168 wins, and improved again in 2016/17 with 170 wins. He partnered Rapper Dragon in 2017 as the horse became the first to win all three legs of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series (Hong Kong Classic Mile, Hong Kong Classic Cup, Hong Kong Derby). Moreira departed for Japan at the end of the 2017/18 season but returned to Hong Kong in December 2018 to ride as stable jockey to John Size, ending that term with 90 wins. In the 2020/21 season he won his fourth Hong Kong Champion Jockey title with 157 wins, including two at Group 1 level, and he also snared a second Hong Kong Derby triumph. In December, 2020 he became only the third jockey in history to notch 1,000 winners in Hong Kong and in the 2021/22 season he registered his 1,200th win. Overall, Moreira won four riding titles in Hong Kong and since departing the city's ranks, he has enjoyed top-level success in Brazil, Japan and Australia. Moreira's most recent Group 1 winner, Obataye, captured the 2025 Gran Premio Latinoamericano - South America's richest race.

Achievements:
Honours: Hong Kong Champion Jockey (2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 & 2020/21); International Jockeys' Championship winner (2012); Japan's World All-Star Jockeys winner (2015); Singapore Champion Jockey (2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013); Brazilian Eclipse Award winner (2006/07 & 2007/08); fastest 100 in a Hong Kong season (6 March, 2016); Hong Kong record for most wins in a season (170 in 2016/17); most wins in a Hong Kong race day (eight: 5 March, 2017); Singapore record for most wins in a season (206 in 2012); eight wins from eight rides at Kranji (6 September, 2013); eight wins in a day at Cidade Jardim (March, 2006).

Notable Race Wins Include
IJC record: 2021 - 8th; 2020 - 2nd; 2019 - 6th (DH); 2017 - 9th (DH); 2016 - 8th (DH); 2015 - 6th; 2014 - 2nd; 2012 - WON; 2010 - 9th (DH).