2023 Another Impressive Year for Riverdee

On my first assignment out of the steeplechase world, The Blood Horse put me on the 1997 Preakness and the Belmont beat. What a beat – Silver Charm, Free House, Captain Bodgit, Touch Gold… Ah, Touch Gold, the vanquisher. And his trainer, David Hofmans. Late in the week of the Belmont, … Read More

Steeplechase meetings all day. No, not the ones with horses and courses, sport and spectators, hills and thrills. Today’s were the ones in preparation for all those things. Raising purses. Restructuring boards. Figuring out the fields. Working out the cards. Steeplechase lifers trying to figure out the next best step. … Read More

Home. Watching the fifth at Roscommon. Looking at the form for the fifth at Stratford. Checking the scratches for the first at Presque Isle. Waiting for the ninth at Parx where Brie’s Mission makes his debut for Matt Groff and Jack Fisher. A Clancy Bloodstock purchase. Time ticks as Saratoga … Read More

Starting the week at the beach. Although I have yet to see the beach. No waves. No sand. No boardwalk. No Funland. Dad doesn’t do the ocean, the boardwalk, Funland any more. Well, he never did any of them much, certainly not Funland, a beeping, blaring, banging menagerie of games … Read More