A JRA director explained at a press conference about the passenger who entered former jockey Tsunoda Taiga’s car onto the Hakodate course， “There was a person from the stable in the back seat．”

Regarding former jockey Tsunoda Taiga’s car entering the Hakodate Racecourse on August 1st and damaging the turf course, JRA director Jun Kikuta, in charge of refereeing, said at a regular JRA press conference on September 23rd, “There was one passenger in the back seat.” “The person in question is someone from the stables, not an outsider,” he explained. The director also questioned the passenger, but explained that because he had not voluntarily boarded the train, Tsunoda had been the former jockey who had removed the rail when the train entered the tracks, and the passenger was not in a position to stop the train, he determined that the degree of negligence was minor and that the punishment was limited to a stern warning. Regarding some reports showing photos of the break-in that appear to show a passenger in the passenger seat, he said, “Based on the security guard’s testimony, that is not the case. There was no one in the passenger seat,” he denied.

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