“IT only takes one.” That’s a statement often told to racehorse owners when they haven’t yet found their “horse of a lifetime”. For Craig Dado, owner of the 18-year-old Great Friends Stable, that kind of horse was long overdue until one race on Kentucky Derby Day 2024 changed everything.

Raging Torrent, owned by Dado in partnership with Yuesheng Zhang, crushed a stakes-quality field in a first-level allowance at Churchill Downs.