2023 Another Impressive Year for Riverdee

Marine Nationale and Sean Flanagan just backed up their Queen Mother Champion Chase form at Cheltenham winning the Grade 1 William Hill Champion Chase at Punchestown. The 8-year-old trounced five rivals, including Grade 1 winner Fact To File at the final big festival on the National Hunt scene for the … Read More

Vintage Year broke his maiden in style at Foxfield. Cool Jet came back to his best, just missing in the Good Night Shirt handicap at Foxfield. Two nice horses. Two strong efforts. Vintage Year made his hurdle debut at Foxfield in fall 2023, over-jumped and over-reached and hit the sidelines … Read More

This 4 o’clock post time is different. No rush on a Saturday morning. Working through a Riverdee newsletter. Perusing flat form from Laurel Park (go Cooper!) to Aqueduct. Watching the Colorado King Stakes from Turffontein in South Africa. Birds chirping outside the window. A bit of rain falling, we need … Read More

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame welcomed its newest member yesterday. Smarty Jones. The Pennsylvania wunderkind. Moments like this make you wade into the archives, all the way back to his Triple Crown run. Twenty-years ago. The Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred. Trainer John Servis gave Stewart Elliott a leg … Read More

A baseball afternoon. The good news, when your son is the closer, is you can get to the games late, you can get some work done (hey, let’s blog) while sitting in the shade of an oak tree and then wander closer for the seventh inning. That’s our routine. Low-key … Read More