2023 Another Impressive Year for Riverdee

Missing It It’s that time of year again. With six days of racing and one edition of The Special to go, it’s time for the annual “I’ll miss, I won’t miss.”  We all know it. We all feel it. The good of Saratoga and the bad of Saratoga. The passion … Read More

Arrests piling up – theft, a drug charge, more theft. Under house arrest. Probation officer had come and gone for the day. A prison sentence loomed.   Jules Stowell yearned for a big night out, one final run through the gauntlet.   She hit the town, the bad part of town. West … Read More

Dear John “That’s a good guy.” And that was good enough for us. Rick Violette said that about John Hendrickson somewhere along the 24-year odyssey of The Saratoga Special and somewhere along Hendrickson’s 30-year odyssey in Saratoga Springs.  It might have been in the middle of distribution-gate, when misinformed management … Read More

A First  Jen Paragallo lunged at the clubhouse television. The one where horsemen hide, where dreamers dream. Arms waving double windmills with each waning stride of the $30,000 New York-bred maiden claimer, the trainer then did the unthinkable, the unbelievable. She turned away – screeching and screaming – from the TV … Read More

Big week this week for Riverdee. Thanks and congratulations to all our partners. We hit the Monday double at Colonial Downs. Palio dominated a maiden and Jimmy Dan rallied to win the 115 handicap. Two nice horses. One imported from the British hurdle scene and one reclaimed from the American … Read More