Alberta-born ROBERTINO DIODORO will reportedly have a string of 40 horses at ASSINIBOIA DOWNS for the 2020 season which opens May 10 in Winnipeg.
Diodoro, 45, has risen to the top of the thoroughbred trainer crop in North America with a huge claiming/stakes barn that has divisions currently at Oaklawn, Sam Houston, Delta Downs and Turf Paradise. Originally from Calgary, Diodoro was on the road to being a hockey player before trading that in for horse training.
He comes by horsemanship honestly. His dad, Tino, helped out his maternal grandfather, Jim Dorman, with horses at the track when Diodoro was a kid.