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Hall of Fame trainer Blane Schvaneveldt mentored Duayne, both of whom were from Preston, Idaho, and got him started in the horse business in the 50’s.
Most accomplished people in the horse racing industry earn their recognition in the spotlight. ThThey’re photographed in the winner’s circle and their advice, comments and photographs fifill magazine articles, advertisements and covers.
But that’s not necessarily true for Duayne Didericksen. Beginning in the 1950s, in addition to rodeoing, Duayne rode, bred, trained, and bought and sold racehorses. ThThen, beginning around the mid-1970s, his interests evolved into administration. Since then, he’s mainly worked behind the scenes to regulate and promote the sport. Although his career hasn’t been all roses, it has been innovative and fulfifilling. And in his nearly 65 years in the horse world, he has accomplished much.
A SERENDIPITOUS MENTOR
Duayne’s dad was in the lumber business and when Duayne’s mom wasn’t at home with Duayne and his older brother and younger sister, she ran some ladies’ and babies’ stores that she owned in the Preston, Idaho, area. “I was
in the 1950s. “Blane was the yard man at the Cache Valley livestock auction when I was young and he said if I’d clean the sale ring, he’d give me a bottle of orange pop and let me ride the horses there,” Duayne says.
Although Blane was only a few years older than Duayne, he mentored the youngster and fed his hunger for horses. “I was his oldest dependent,” Duayne jokes. “Blane kind of raised me.”
After Duayne learned the sale-yard ropes, he started trading horses and buying and selling livestock for a living. “I worked on the kill flfloor for four years to learn how to grade and buy cattle,” he says.
When he was young enough and small enough, he adds, he worked as a jockey. From 1957 — the same year he married his late wife, Ida Lee Roberts — through 1962, he trained for the public. During that time, he also served as AQHA Field Representative for Idaho and Utah.
FINDING HIS STRIDE
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