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Trainer Dan Blacker of England first became acquainted with the United States through Godolphin s Flying Start Program.
How a trainer treats his stable stars is important, of course, but it s equally as important how he treats the racehorses that are not quite so talented.
Racehorse owner Rick Gold explains that s one of the qualities he most respects about up-and-coming trainer Dan Blacker. The English-born horseman, now based in Southern California, earned his first graded stakes victory last weekend in Santa Anita s Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes with Hit The Road, a 4-year-old Gold co-owns.
“It s easy to talk about Hit the Road, right,” Gold mused. “It s one thing to train a horse like Hit the Road who has the mental and physical ability… Meanwhile, a horse like Sir Eddie had none of those things.”