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Died. Christopher T. Chenery, 86, Virginia gentleman and horse breeder who in 1936 built the Meadow Stables in Doswell, Va., training ground for a long line of champion thoroughbreds that included Riva Ridge, winner of last year's Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, and Secretariat, Horse of the Year in 1972; in New Rochelle...
Seibert marked off the trails himself. One of the first and most exacting he called Riva Ridge, after a battle that the 10th Mountain had fought in Italy. Three days before the scheduled opening of Vail in December 1962, two lodges, a restaurant and a couple of stores waited for customers, but there was no snow. Seibert hired an Indian snow dancer and lo, it snowed. In later years, whenever there was little snow, he fired old railway flares packed with silver iodide into the clouds to seed them. "My three kids thought I was crazy," says Seibert, "but when...
...Riva Ridge's nine victories are all the more impressive because most of them have been won against top competition. As a two-year-old, he took the Flash, the Futurity, the Champagne Stakes, the Pimlico-Laurel Futurity and the Garden State, collecting a total of $503,263 in prize money. In his first trial as a three-year-old, following a long winter's rest, he ran away with the Hibiscus Stakes. After missing out in the Everglades, he returned to the winner's circle last week with a coasting four-length victory over ten other...
...Riva Ridge has any real challengers as a top three-year-old, they could be two colts who showed their speed too late to be entered in the Derby. One is his stablemate Upper Case, who recently trounced a bunch of Derby hopefuls in the Florida Derby and the Wood Memorial; the other is Quack, who forced two erstwhile top contenders out of the race at Churchill Downs by whipping them in the California Derby...
...best horse to race Riva Ridge in Louisville may be No Le Hace (Spanish for "It makes no difference"), unbeaten this year in four races, including the Louisiana and Arkansas derbies. A sentimental choice may be the Arkansas Derby's runner-up, Hassi's Image, trained by Venezuelan Juan Arias. Last year Arias prepared Canonero II, surprise winner of both the Derby and Preakness. Canonero threatened to become the first horse in 25 years to take the Triple Crown, but he confounded the odds makers and finished fourth in the Belmont. Now it is Riva Ridge...