Congratulations to all my clients who enjoyed wins at the sport's biggest meet at Far Hills October 17. Sean Clancy Bloodstock swept half the card! The Fields Stable's Left Unsaid continued his ascent to the top of the novice division by winning the Foxbrook for trainer Tom Voss. House horse Dictina's Boy returned from a summer freshening to win the Appleton Stakes for Voss, Tom Miscannon and Riverdee Stable (that's us). Arcadia Stable's Hope For Us All dominated the Gladstone to clinch the 3-year-old championship. Three wins on the biggest day.

As for the history . . .

Good Night Shirt is certainly the flagship of my bloodstock business. I got lucky, stumbled on him at Fair Hill Training Center and he’s done the rest. Along with him (my first champion), I’m proud of the other stakes winners Left Unsaid, Bubble Economy, Rare Bush, Hope For Us All, Dictina's Boy and the gamers Corruption, Dynability, Dancewel, Mark The Shark, Vain Vixen, Rescigno . . . all of them.

Obviously, buying flat horses off the track to become jumpers is my specialty but I also work as the American agent for the Irish Sales Company, Goffs, and have purchased yearlings and 2-year-olds in training for clients. Irish import Sit A Spiel, purchased at the Goffs Dundalk 2-year-old sale last April, finished second in his two career starts this summer.

The 2009 season has produced another river of winners including Left Unsaid, Mark The Shark, Rare Bush, Dictina's Boy, Hope For Us All, Bubble Economy, Good Night Shirt and Rescigno. Flat or jumps, they win.

Thoroughbred Take A Partner was retrained and sold into Olympic Gold Medalist Joe Fargis' barn; he has earned ribbons at some of the country's best horse shows during the year. Riverdee's show division produced Take A Partner as well as Just Blue, Border Agent and Kissin Conquest who have won or placed in jumper classes from Culpeper to Virginia Horse Center. Riverdee also campaigned Dutch Warmblood, Holiday, champion and reserve champion in the HITS Culpeper series Summer 2009.

I look at horses every day; either in the flesh or on paper. Completing the superfecta are my 73-year-old father (of Maryland Hunt Cup-winner Buck Jakes fame), my brother Joe and my wife Anne. 

Sean