Sean Clancy

First Step

Here goes. Time to get to work. Write every day. Hey, everybody needs a goal. They say we gain one hour of sunlight during February. At least that’s what the Saratoga Stryders informed us this week in their weekly newsletter. I skimmed it and deleted it. But I noted the … Read More

Happy New Year

Well, here goes. About to hit the publish button on the brand-new Riverdee Stable Website. I guess, if you’re reading this, it worked. It’s been a long time in coming – and a longer time in editing, creating, designing and dreaming. I know better than making a bunch of promises. … Read More

2023 Another Memorable year for Riverdee

Led by Awakened winning the G1 Jonathan Sheppard New York Turf Writers Cup at Saratoga, Riverdee finished the 2023 steeplechase season as the leading owner in wins and second in earnings. Overall, Riverdee horses won 13 times for over $500,000, with 49.3% top three strike rate in 67 flat and … Read More

News Archive

Check out the Riverdee Stable and Clancy Bloodstock headlines from over the years. Here’s to many more.

Awakened wins Grade 1

Pedigree matters. The cross of leading sire Curlin and A.P. Indy mares has produced the likes of champions Malathaat and Nest, millionaire Global Campaign, Grade 1 winner Julia Shining and so on. Add Grade 1 steeplechase winner to the mix after Awakened won the $150,000 Jonathan Sheppard at Saratoga Race … Read More

Chasing Gold

The first Saturday in May…the last Saturday in May. It’s Gold Cup Day. In the midst of a hot, dry spell, somehow, the rain has come over the past two days. Good for some. Bad for a few. And questionable for others.

Mastering the Masters

Richard Farquhar, of Walking the Courses (read a feature on his amazing walk here), organizes a Masters competition for charity. Pick four players, best cumulative score wins. Now I’ve gone to Masters dot com and am tracking Simpson, Oosthuizen, Rahm, Dechambeau, Day, Im, Hatton and

Ball Game

Hey, how’d it go on Whitney Day? 

Reinvestment Risk emerges as the talking horse who talks in the first…Everfast enjoys a class relief…Midnight Bisou gets beat…Vexatious, yeah, Vexatious

Hit Me

Has it hit you? Like, really, hit you. Like, stop-and-sink hit you.  It hadn’t fully hit me until a couple of phone calls and emails this week, ones that hung in the air, stopped me in mid-sentence, mid-scroll. Ones that made me ponder life, made me wistful for better days, … Read More

Two at the Top

Rough day at Callaway Gardens Saturday. Jockeys and horses hitting the ground. Stellar racing. With a cost.

Carrying Jack Doyle’s whip to a somber jocks’ room after the last, I wondered about blessings in disguise and all the years when we wished for Montpelier and Callaway Gardens to be on separate days, allowing for more runners, better racing at both storied venues. Well, this year we got our wish with full fields at Montpelier in Virginia Nov. 2 and at Callaway Gardens in Georgia a week later. Full fields of fast horses and determined jockeys on a tight, right-handed, demanding course. A cauldron. There was nowhere to hide.

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