About Richard Dutrow Jr.
American thoroughbred racehorse trainer Richard E. “Rick” Dutrow Jr. was born on August 5, 1959, and his estimated net worth is $5 million. On March 3, 2007, at Santa Anita, trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. scored his 1000th career triumph when Kip Deville won the $300,000 Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap (G1).
Born into a Racing Family:
Dutrow, who was born on August 5, 1959, is the son of the late east coast trainer Dick Dutrow, who passed away in 2000. Tony, who works out of Delaware Park and Philadelphia Park, is also a personal trainer. When they were young, both went to the barns with their father, and Richard began helping his father out when he was 16 years old.
A Difficult Start
In the late 1990s, when his father relocated his stable from New York to Maryland, Dutrow struck out on his own. With only one horse in his stable and having to live in his tack room at Aqueduct, things were difficult. His first stakes wins came in 2000 with the help of Stalwart Member, a horse owned by commodities dealer Sanford Goldfarb. From 2001 through 2003, Goldfarb was New York’s top owner by wins, and it was thanks to his horses that Dutrow became a success. In 2001 and 2002, he was the top trainer in New York, and since 2001, he has been the top trainer in eight NYRA events.
Winners of the largest wins and stakes:
He won the Pennsylvania Derby (G2) at Philadelphia Park with Love of Money in 2004 as well as the Massachusetts Handicap (G2) at Suffolk Downs with Offlee Wild. His two greatest horses were Silver Train, who won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) and the Met Mile, and Saint Liam, the 2005 Horse of the Year who won the Stephen Foster Handicap (G1) and the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) (G1). Sis City, Carson Hollow, Thunder Blitz, Classic Endeavor, Well Fancied, and Cativa are some of the other stakes winners he has trained.
Loss of Richard Dutrow Jr.
Due to a lengthy history of racing offenses, the New York State Racing and Wagering Board (NYSR&WB) barred Dutrow from racing for 10 years and fined him $50,000 on October 12, 2011. This came when the Licensing Review Committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission decided not to renew his license there. While he filed an official court appeal against the NYSR&WB’s decision, Dutrow continued to train horses. When his appeal request was turned down by the state’s Court of Appeals on January 8, 2013, his legal remedies in New York State were no longer available. Dutrow would be placed on administrative leave from January 17, 2013, to January 17, 2023, excluding any potential appeal in federal court.
The New York racing commission’s ten-year suspension of Richard Dutrow Jr. is currently in effect. Richard Dutrow Jr.’s net worth is projected to reach $5 million as of 2023. The Queens District Attorney’s office reopened its investigation into the 10-year suspension of horse trainer Rick Dutrow in March 2020, which was connected to syringes in his stable.
