Bunshi Funabiki

The name Bunshi Funabiki sounds like it belongs to a poet or a calligrapher, so when I found out he was actually a jockey from Osaka, born in 1986, I genuinely did a double take. There's something quietly fascinating about that gap — the literary name, the very physical life. Riding is one of those sports that looks elegant from the outside but demands a kind of iron will most people never need to develop; you're asking a half-ton animal to trust you completely, at full speed, in a crowd. For someone from Osaka to step into that world and stick with it says something real about toughness. He won on his debut ride in 2006, came back from a bad fall in 2007, and after retiring in 2010 has stayed with horses, now running the stables at the TCC Therapy Park, which almost suits the image — a guy who does the work without making noise about it, just him and the horse.

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Bunshi Funabiki is a former Japanese jockey born on September 26, 1986, in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Based at the JRA's Ritto Training Center, he won on his very first ride in 2006, retired in December 2010 with 20 wins from 634 starts, worked as a training assistant, and in 2019 became stable manager of the TCC Therapy Park.

Name (English)

Bunshi Funabiki

Name (Japanese)

船曳文士

Reading

ふなびき ぶんし

Born

September 26, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Jockey

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

Blood type

O

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%88%B9%E6%9B%B3%E6%96%87%E5%A3%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11614089

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• Jockey

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.