Tough Day

Sometimes you’re the windshield. Sometimes you’re the bug. Yesterday, we were the bug(s). Tough day all around with two falls at the Iroquois, a lost rider and a forced off course at Willowdale. Managed a third and a fifth in the 110 handicap at Willowdale. 0-for-6. Zabeel Champion jumped and … Read More

Music city

It’s been 41 years since my first trip to Nashville, Tennessee. Dad loaded up the Augustin Stable six-horse Imperatore horse van with a bunch of runners for George Strawbridge, Jr. and the best runner in the barn for me. Red Raven, a 14.199-hand Thoroughbred twin who ran a hole in … Read More

Two days

The countdown to the Iroquois. The second-to-last meeting of the spring. Time flies. Riverdee is a little light with two entries in Nashville. I guess we could have entered a few more but I’ve been standing at Percy Warner Park when tired horses labor up that hill and wondered why … Read More

Sovereignty

Just in case you missed it. I wrote this in The Irish Field. December, 2024.

young at heart

“He makes an old man like me look good.” That’s how Bernie Dalton described Cool Jet to trainer Jack Fisher moments after winning the Grade 1 Commonwealth Cup at the Virginia Gold Cup Saturday. An old man on an old horse doing young things. I wrote about Dalton way back … Read More

Bloodstock

Clancy Bloodstock finds winners. From 4 furlongs to 32 furlongs, we have unearthed stakes winners around the world. Sure, steeplechasing has proven to be a specialty, but we can find any horse for any job. 

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Riverdee STable

A select racing partnership, Riverdee Stable competes nationally and internationally, aiming at the biggest festivals around the world (Saratoga, Keeneland, Cheltenham, Royal Ascot, etc.). Horses are purchased through public auction or private sale, focusing mainly on horses of racing age but we also buy yearlings and 2-year-olds.

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Roll Of Honor

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Valdez

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Gibralfaro

Eagle Poise

Eagle Poise

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