Taiga Tsunoda

Taiga Tsunoda was a Japanese jockey, born in Shiga Prefecture in 2003, who died in 2024. He was barely into his twenties. He came from a racing family, the son of trainer Koichi Tsunoda and younger brother of jockey Yamato Tsunoda, and he graduated from the racing school in its 38th class attached to the stable of Mamoru Ishibashi. 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. 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.

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Name (English)

Taiga Tsunoda

Name (Japanese)

角田大河

Reading

つのだ たいが

Born

May 21, 2003 – August 2024

Origin

Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

jockey

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

• 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

September 25, 2026

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