Re: Riverman

["strang" <johanna.strang@wanadoo.fr>]

    Hi Bobbie,

    many thanks for your reply and the info - I take it your kind offer
means you'll come to Compiegne in August?  That would be great!

    To all those interested I'd advise you to book a hotel as of now as
accomodation in the region is already getting scarce.  I take it you all
have the coordinates of the site which is still quite meagre on info:
http://www.compiegne-2000.com

    My mare has unfortunately not inherited Riverman's lovely conformation
due to interference from her mother's heavy model (a lusitanian typed barb
mare if you can imagine what that can look like...!) but she has the most
amazing fighting spirit and strong heart which I imagine must descend from
Riverman


    Hope to see you in August,

    Johanna

-----Original Message-----
From: Roberta Jo Lieberman <woik@home.com>
To: johanna.strang@wanadoo.fr <johanna.strang@wanadoo.fr>;
ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: 16 April 2000 04:02
Subject: Riverman


><<I've recently twigged that my endurance mare is grand-daughter of
>US-bred racing horse Riverman and I've tried, without success, to find a
>photo and/or some more info about him.  Do any of you know of a useful
>web-site or other source of info?>>
>
>Well, it appears that Riverman is deceased. He is no longer listed on
>the stallion roster at Gainesway Farm, where he stood at stud for many
>years, or on the Stallion Register page at The Blood-Horse.com.
>
>Riverman was foaled in 1969 and raced at 2 and 3 in France and England,
>earning about $250,000. He was America's co-leading sire of stakes
>winners in 1987. He was a dark bay or brown horse standing 15.3, with
>lovely conformation. Among his many champion offspring was his daughter
>Triptych, known as Europe's "Iron Lady" and earner of $2 million.
>
>He was a son of Never Bend, by Nasrullah by Nearco, and out of River
>Lady, by Prince John by Princequillo. Very classic Thoroughbred breeding.
>
>I have a photo of Riverman...perhaps I can deliver it in person, say in
>August? :)
>
>Bobbie in Calif. (who hung on to a few stallion directories)