Birth Date: Wednesday, August 5, 1959
Birth Place: Hagerstown, Md.

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Career: Saddled All Due Respect to victory in the Ocala and Stradivinsky to win the Turf Sprint Stakes. Won 2010 Gulfstream Park Turf with Court Vision and Swale with D’Funnybone...Won 2009 Gulfstream Park Turf with Breeders’ up Mile winner Kip Deville and in 2008 he keyed a roller coaster year by launching Big Brown’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes season out of his Palm Meadows training center. That Gulfstream campaign started on a high note with Benny the Bull winning the Sunshine Millions Sprint and carried through the winter with Big Brown winning an allowance race and the Florida Derby. On Florida Derby Day, March 29, 2008, he won $4 million in purses with three horses: Benny the Bull and Diamond Stripes won stakes on the Dubai WorldCup card before Big Brown took Gulfstream’s signature event. Dutrow also trained 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam. ... He hails from a family of conditioners: his late father, Dick Sr., was a leader on the East Coast and his brother Tony is based in Maryland and Delaware. Rick earned his third career Breeders’ Cup win with Kip Deville in the Mile at Monmouth Park in 2007. He has been the leading trainer at both Aqueduct and Belmont Park, and was the top trainer in New York in 2001 and 2002 in terms of wins. Prior to 2008, his best year as a trainer came in 2005, starting the year with Saint Liam’s win in the Donn Handicap and continuing with Grade 1 winner Sis City, that year’s Kentucky Oaks favorite and Davona Dale Stakes winner. Later that season Silver Train would win the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and the Met Mile the following spring.  Other: Big Brown’s Triple Crown attempt exposed many skeletons in Dutrow’s closet including several run-ins with the law and racing officials because of personal drug problems ... Started working for his late father at age 16 and despite an estranged relationship, considers Dutrow Sr. his mentor ....