Diamond in the rough

Over the past 25 years, Diamond D Ranch has laid the groundwork for more than 100 stakes winners
 Story and photos by Denis Blake

The success of a training center is fairly simple to measure. While anyone can claim their graduates are healthy young prospects ready to begin a career as a racehorse, such assertions are meaningless if they are not backed by results on the track. Ed Dodwell of Diamond D Ranch in Lone Oak, Texas, is not one to boast – he lets the results do the talking. And they speak rather loudly. Over the past 25 years, Diamond D has generated more than 100 individual stakes winners and its trainees have gone on to record upward of 500 stakes placings. When you have numbers like that, you don’t need to brag........  

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