After Oaklawn, he goes to Prairie Meadows. I just know she is going to be a rider. Trader's wife, Jill, is sister of the one-time prominent rider, Jack Kaenel. Rodney began his riding career in Florida in 1982. His father, the late Nelson Trader, trained horses.
Trader remembers always being around thoroughbreds.
My late father had a place at Morrilton, Arkansas. Mom and Dad used to worry about me being stepped on, or getting hurt, when I was a toddler, so they'd put me in a sack and hook me to a mechanical hot walker. I can remember going around on that hot walker like it was a carousel. Trader lists Harry N Jerry as a favorite he's ridden. Inc. All rights reserved.