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Racing Background: Son of the late Dick Dutrow, an East Coast-based trainer, who died on Feb. 19, 2000 ... His brothers Tony and Sydney “Chip” Dutrow also are involved in racing ... Tony is a trainer who operates divisions in New York, Philadelphia Park and Delaware Park ... Chip has worked as an assistant to both brothers and now has his own stable in New York ... Rick and his brothers went to the barns with their father as young children ... Rick began working as an assistant to his father at the age of 16
Racing Career: Went out on his own in the late 1990s when his father left New York to return to Maryland ... Things were not easy at first; he had no money and was living in a tack room at Aqueduct. His stable consisted of one horse, Churkin, whom he had claimed for $16,000 ... Dutrow's career began to take off in 2000. His lone stakes winner that year was Stalwart Member, who was owned by commodities trader Sanford Goldfarb ... Goldfarb, leading owner by wins in New York in 2001, ’02 and ’03, was the main force in propelling Dutrow’s numbers skyward ... To date, Dutrow has trained a Horse of the Year, three Eclipse Award winners and won the both the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Kentucky Derby ... Since 2000, Dutrow has been leading trainer in New York three times (’01, ’02 and ’05) and finished either second or third in the other years through 2007. He has won more than 700 races during this time and has been the leading trainer at 14 New York Racing Association meets from 2001-08 … Is coming off a career year in 2008 ... Dutrow trained two champions, Big Brown, the year’s best 3-year-old male, and Benny The Bull, the Eclipse Award-winning sprinter ... Big Brown’s dominance of his division featured wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness for Dutrow but he flopped in the Belmont Stakes ... Big Brown, who was favored in the Kentucky Derby off a five-length romp in the Florida Derby, took the Kentucky Derby by 4 ¾ lengths – despite breaking from post 20 – and the Preakness by 5 ¼ lengths ... The colt’s lopsided wins sparked a string of controversial statements by the outspoken Dutrow that created a media furor . . . Prior to the Belmont Stakes, he said a Triple Crown-clinching victory was “a foregone conclusion.” ... Another comment that caused an uproar was Dutrow’s revelation that Big Brown had been given Winstrol, a legal anabolic steroid, through May. In response, Big Brown’s majority owner, IEAH, announced that starting on Oct. 1 all of its runners would not race with anything other than furosemide ... Following the debacle in the Belmont Stakes, Big Brown returned to the winner’s circle with a victory in the G1 Haskell and the Monmouth Stakes on turf, but was retired in early October, prior to the Breeders’ Cup Classic ... “Anyone who gets to live through anything as exciting as I have with Big Brown is living a very good life,” Dutrow said ... Benny the Bull was fourth in the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Sprint and then closed out the year with a victory in the grade 1 DeFrancis Memorial Dash ... He resumed his winning ways in 2008, reeling off victories in the Sunshine Millions Sprint, the $2 million Golden Shaheen at Nad Al Sheba, G2 True North and G2 Smile before an ankle injury ended his championship year in late August ... Benny the Bull returned to the races in 2009 but was winless in three starts and was retired after a fourth-place finish in the G2 A.G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga ... Dutrow’s sensational 2008 campaign also included a runner-up finish by Kip Deville in the Breeders’ Cup Mile ... Kip Deville won the 2007 Mile, giving Dutrow his third Breeders’ Cup victory ... Kip Deville remained in training in 2009 and won the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap before finishing off the board in his next three starts ... Kip Deville notched 2008 stakes wins in the grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile and grade 3 Poker... Other 2008 stakes wins for Dutrow included Frost Giant in the G1 Suburban and Diamond Stripes in the G2 Godolphin Mile ... The wins by Benny the Bull and Diamond Stripes on the undercard of the Dubai World Cup – when they were saddled by Dutrow’s assistant Michelle Nevin – were worth a combined $1.8 million ... “It was a dream year for me,” Dutrow said. "It was a phenomenal experience." ... His 2009 campaign is highlighted by the emergence of D’Funnybone, who won the Belmont Futurity and Saratoga Special by a combined 15 ¼ lengths to become one of the top candidates for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile ... D’Funnybone is owned by Paul Pompa Jr., who was the original owner of Big Brown and remained in the partnership when the colt was sold to a group led by IEAH and turned over to Dutrow ... His other Breeders’ Cup possibilities are Court Vision in the Mile and Rising Moon in the Marathon ... IEAH also purchased Stardom Bound, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2008 and winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, for $5.7 million and transferred her to Dutrow for grade 1 wins earlier this year in the Las Virgenes and Santa Anita Oaks, where she was saddled by longtime friend Bobby Frankel. . . . She has not run since April, when she finished third in the Ashland at Keeneland, and is unlikely to return to the races in time for the Breeders’ Cup ... Also in 2009, This Ones for Phil took the Swale and Sunshine Millions Dash ... In 2004, he gained national exposure with wins by Offlee Wild in the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs and Love of Money in the Pennsylvania Derby at Philadelphia Park, both grade 2 races ... He also trained Saint Liam, who ran a close second behind Ghostzapper in the Woodward, showing a glimmer of what was to come the following year ... In 2005, Saint Liam won the Woodward and Breeders' Cup Classic en route to being named Horse of the Year ... Earlier in the afternoon at Belmont Park, Silver Train gave Dutrow his first Breeders' Cup victory with a dramatic win in the Sprint ... The 2007 Breeders' Cup at Monmouth Park was another success for Dutrow. He won the Mile with Oklahoma-bred Kip Deville. His other three runners were Benny the Bull (4th, Sprint), Diamond Stripes (8th, Classic) and Oprah Winney (8th, F&M Sprint) ... Dutrow is facing a 30-day suspension that is scheduled to start on Nov. 15, 2009 ... The ban stems from a May 2, 2008 race in which the Dutrow-trained Salute the Count finished second in the G3 Aegon Turf Sprint, but was disqualified from purse money when post-race testing revealed a high level of clenbuterol, a bronchodilator ... Served a 60-day suspension (reduced from 120 days) in 2005 for two drug positives and a claiming violation. During that time, his barn remained successful, but some of those victories, including Saint Liam’s win in the G1 Stephen Foster, were credited to other trainers. Earlier in ’07, he served an additional 14 days and was fined $25,000 for violating conditions of his suspension by having contact with his stable ... The New York State Racing and Wagering Board also fined members of Dutrow’s staff in connection with the 2005 suspension
Breeding/Racing Operation: His stable now totals about 120 horses ... His primary owners are IEAH, Mace and Samantha Siegel, Sanford Goldfarb and Michael Dubb.
NOTE: Bio stats include North American and selected international races. Click here to view selected international race list. Biographies on jockeys, trainers and owners are from the Breeders' Cup World Championships events from 2001 through 2009, and are intended as informational resources. Biographies will be updated if an individual is again a participant in the Breeders' Cup World Championships. Biographies are available for most horses appearing in the top 100 money earnings list, and/or for those who are frequently making headlines in the news starting with the 2006 Triple Crown season.
