Born: July 8, 1972
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario
Residence: Arlington Heights
Family: Wife Denise
Started Training: 1998 in Detroit
First Win: I Want to go Home, Detroit Race Course (now Great Lakes Downs), 1998
Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Arlington Park
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Year
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Starts
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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Earnings
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W rank
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W %
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ITM %
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2008-2009 meet
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107
|
23
|
21
|
17
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$288,921
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6th
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21.5
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57.1
|
|
2007-2008 meet
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119
|
33
|
21
|
19
|
$513,701
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2nd
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27.7
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61.3
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2006-2007 meet
|
80
|
22
|
19
|
16
|
$285,133
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5th
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27.5
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71.3
|
|
2005-2006 meet
|
70
|
20
|
11
|
11
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$232,289
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4th
|
29
|
60
|
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Dale Bennett Tampa Stakes Wins
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Year
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Race
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Winner
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Jockey
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Owner
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2008
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Sandpiper Stakes
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Unfolding Wish
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Carlos Montalvo
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Kinsman Stable
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Dale Bennett finished the 2008-2009 racing season at Tampa bay Downs as the sixth leaading trainer, and was the second leading conditioner here in the 2007-2008 meet.
Dale Bennett, whose father is Tampa Bay Downs trainer Gerald Bennett, was born in Toronto in 1972 and grew up on a farm in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada. He was raised around horses, and began working with them at a very early age. As time went by, Bennett began to progress through the ranks of the backside, starting out hot-walking for his father, then as a groom and an exercise rider, all the while finding time to graduate from Geulph Collegiate in 1991. In 1998, Bennett earned his trainer’s license and began his career with three horses in his barn; one of whom, Spirit Of Austin, gave him his first win at Detroit Race Course. Since then, Dale Bennett has excelled at any track where he keeps a stable.
Bennett says his father has had the biggest influence on his career. He grew up working in his barn, and says that his father taught him the art of communicating with horses, as well as the need to treat and train the horses as individuals. Bennett’s most memorable horse is Marley’s Revenge, who gave Bennett his first stakes win. Marley’s Revenge covered the five and a half furlongs on the turf at ArlingtonPark in 1:02.44, shattering a twenty-two-year-old stakes record there.
Thirteen years ago, Bennett met his wife Denise at Tampa Bay Downs, where she rode for the Gerald Bennett stable. The two got married in 2000, and Denise, who is now a trainer in her own right, laughingly points out that meeting her was Dale Bennett’s most memorable event at Tampa Bay Downs.