2023 Another Impressive Year for Riverdee

Three chances this weekend. Recent purchase Wilma Flintshire makes her stakes debut in the Marion DuPont Scott Memorial for trainer Lilith Boucher and jockey Graham Watters. The 4-year-old daughter of Flintshire has posted a second and two thirds over hurdles. I followed her on the flat a bit, didn’t do … Read More

Back to work. What a laugh. We work every day, every weekend. Mondays don’t really change anything. A little more office work, paperwork, grunt work. Regrouping from the previous weekend, resetting for the next one. Riverdee entered four at Montpelier and Pennsylvania Hunt Cup. Winless over the weekend. Just two … Read More

Twenty-nine days. Seven meets. Thirty-eight races. And the season will be over. Slow to build and fast to go, that’s steeplechasing in America. As we say during Saratoga, sleep in September. When it comes to jump racing, sleep in December. No sleeping today. Eight of those races play out today at the … Read More

Beautiful morning at 35538. Miles off to school. Toga Day. Something to do with Latin class. The final baseball game of the fall season later this afternoon. Fredericksburg on a Thursday night. Nothing better. I’m off to ride Lemonade Thursday, another retired Riverdee runner who is now a fox hunter … Read More

Should I write a blog or go for a run? Perhaps, both. Perhaps. Both will be short. Sun going down, running out of time. Just as well. Entered Welshman and Cool Jet in the William H. Allison and Queens Empire in the International Gold Cup this weekend. Tough races. The … Read More