Eric Dierks Wins Retired Racehorse Trainer Challenge!

Retired Racehorse Trainer Challenge Draws Crowd of 3,000

The Equine Arena at the Pennsylvania Horse World Expo was filled way beyond capacity yesterday for the Retired Racehorse Training Project's first Retired Racehorse Trainer Challenge. Sixteen hundred sixty were lucky enough to find seats, and almost that many stood six deep above them on three sides of the huge arena.

Eric Dierks of Tryon, North Carolina was awarded the Best Trainer title based on his five weeks of work with Brazilian Wedding, a 6 year old mare by Milwaukee Brew, who won her last race in December at Charles Town for trainer Kevin Patterson. She is owned by Pat Dale of Conowingo, Maryland.

"I am so grateful to everybody who organized this event," said Dierks at the press conference after the Challenge. "Thoroughbred horses made me what I am as a trainer, and being part of an effort to showcase the trainability of these horses is an honor for me."

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