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Richard Dutrow Jr.
By Ed Bain
From the January 2002 issue:
Susan and I live in a small blue collar town with a population of about 35,000.
Hagerstown Maryland is an hour west of Baltimore. One of my favorite trainers grew up less than a mile from our home. Richard (Dickie) Dutrow worked the fair circuits and at the time there was a ½ mile track
right in H-town. He graduated to the big circuit of Laurel, Pimlico, and Bowie where for years he was one of the dominate claiming trainers in Maryland.
Dickie Dutrow wanted bigger and better things in life
than what Maryland offered and he decided to move his tack to the New York circuit. His stable was never as big as it was when he trained in Maryland but his win percentage was just as good.
Dutrow bred,
trained and raced many of his own horses. He bred and raced one of my all time favorite sprinters, Lite The Fuse. Susan and I would go to see him race every time Dutrow shipped him down to Maryland. The jock on Lite
The Fuse was one he had met training here while she was an apprentice, Julie Krone.
This late running son of Buckaroo was fun to just watch. During the post parade he puffed himself up and showed all the other runners who they had to beat. His run started at the ½ mile in his races and always came from off the pace. You could see he tried so hard to win that his neck was turned from over striding and I knew if Julie could get his neck and head straight he would take off and win. He never disappointed me, even when he lost.
Richard Dutrow passed away a few years ago but his sons maintain the family legacy of being great horsemen.
He has two sons Richard Dutrow Jr. who races in New York and Anthony (Tony) Dutrow who races here in Maryland. Tony is a lot like his father. He trains and races mostly horses he owns while Richard has a public stable and is becoming one of the dominate claiming trainers in one of the toughest circuits in the country, New York. He is getting the same reputation as his father had when he was a claiming trainer.
Over the last 16 months Richard Dutrow Jr. has claimed 5 horses out of route races and did not hit on any of his 1st after a claim in a route. He claimed 25 horses from sprint races and won with 5, a 20% hit
rate. In this same time frame he moved 32 horses into claim 2.
There were 2 more that he claimed prior to this 16 month window and had them up for claim 2. Richard placed 16 of these claimed horses in sprints and won with 5, a 31 percent hit rate. These produced an average win mutuel of $6.36. Bet $2 to win on all 16, you wager $32 and you get back $31.80, a breakeven for the 16 races.
Richard placed 16 of these claimed horses in Route races on 2nd after a Claim - Route and won with 8, a 50 percent hit rate.
His average win mutuel on the 8 wins is $8.68. Bet $2 to win on all 16, you spend $32 and get back $69.44 or an ROI of $4.34.
When I look at a trainer’s overall hit rate, I always wonder what does he do to
boost his year to date overall statistic? A trainer like Richard Dutrow Jr. has more than one exceptional speciality move that supports his 24 percent overall hit rate. Claim 2 is just one.
Richard
Dutrow Jr. has some big shoes to fill. They say life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it. Richard Jr. has filled his father’s shoes. Here in Hagerstown they say he is just like his
Dad.
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