Richard Dutrow, Jr. (born August 5, 1959 in Hagerstown, Maryland) is a trainer in North American Thoroughbred horse racing. He won the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with Big Brown, Champion Three-Year-Old. Big Brown was Dutrow’s first starter in the Run for the Roses. Big Brown became the first horse to win from the 20 hole in the starting gate in the Kentucky Derby.
Dutrow trained 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam, who won the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Belmont Park in 2005. He has also trained top horses Kip Deville, Benny the Bull, Offlee Wild, Silver Train, and Silver Wagon.
Richard Dutrow, Jr. got his start in horse racing working for his father Dick, a prominent trainer on the East Coast. At the age of 16 became assistant trainer to his father. His brothers Tony and Chip train horses on the East Coast.
He has been leading trainer at both Aqueduct and Belmont Park, and was the top trainer in New York in 2001, 2002, and 2005 with the most wins. Dutrow spends most of the year in New York, but sends a string of horses in the winter to Palm Meadows in Florida. He opened his own stable in the late 1990s when his father left New York to return to Maryland. His stabled consisted of one horse, named Churkin, whom he claimed for $16,000.
