"I just think back to when I first got in the business. I was like 20 years old when I claimed my first horse for about $2,000… I just think about how exciting it was. It was just as exciting back then, when you started racing a $2,000 claimer, as it is racing a horse like Bulldog Hanover, really."
Jack Darling knows plenty about classy horses, with his lengthy training career leading up to last year’s pinnacle: World Champion 2022 O’Brien/Dan Patch Horse of the Year and 2023 Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Bulldog Hanover. The Cambridge, Ontario horseman, however, says his harness racing career hasn’t been a gradual rise to prominence, as much as it’s been a roller coaster ride of highs and lows.
To read the feature on Darling from the June 2023 issue of TROT Magazine, click the following link: "He Was The First Really Classy Horse That I Had."