David Loder is a retired trainer

Horse trainer

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 of Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 racehorses

Horse racing

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David Loder is the son of Simon Loder, of the family of Loder Baronets

Loder Baronets

The Loder Baronetcy, of Whittlebury in the County of Northampton, and of High Beeches in Slaugham in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 July 1887 for Robert Loder, who had previously represented New Shoreham in the House of Commons as a...

, by Sandra Fleming, a descendant of Robert Fleming (financier). He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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He began his professional career at Newmarket Racecourse

Newmarket Racecourse

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 in 1992 and trained for thirteen years before retiring in 2005.

He is known for anticipating that Dubai Millennium

Dubai Millennium

Dubai Millennium was a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, bred in the United States but trained in the United Kingdom and Dubai during his racing career which ran from 1998 and 2000. He is notable for winning a series of major races in 1999 and 2000 including the Dubai World Cup...

 would become a star horse.

Loder retired after suffering from a virus

Virus

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that prevented him from training as well as he had previously.