Taiga Tsunoda

Taiga Tsunoda was a Japanese jockey, born in Shiga Prefecture in 2003, who died in 2024. He was barely into his twenties. I have very little to work with here beyond those bare facts, and I would rather admit that than dress the gaps up in borrowed sentiment. What I can say is what the job asks of anyone who takes it. Horse racing in Japan demands that a young rider control his weight to the gram, live inside a discipline most people would find unbearable, and accept genuine physical danger every time he is legged up. Very few make it as far as a licence and a mount. He did. Records and win totals are the language the sport uses to remember people, and I cannot recite his. But somewhere there are people who called his name from the stands, and that is the more durable kind of memory. I will leave it there, respectfully.

Name (English)

Taiga Tsunoda

Name (Japanese)

角田大河

Reading

つのだ たいが

Born

May 21, 2003 – 2024-08-00

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

Origin

Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

jockey

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A7%92%E7%94%B0%E5%A4%A7%E6%B2%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111113698

Tags

• Shiga Prefecture
• jockey

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.