VAN RIDDELL ch. H, STANDARDBRED, 1943
| Color: ch Height: 3,T2:08h $2,870
atr. 76416
His most noted horses were trotters, among them Van Riddell. Rowe drove his homebred colt in the 1946 Hambletonian, most famous of all trotting classics. He did not win the “Hambo”, but Van Riddell’s appearance at Goshen’s Historic track helped bring wide-spread attention to the sport of harness racing in Ontario. A year earlier, 1945, Van Riddell became the first of seven winners for the Rowelands Farm in the Canadian Standardbred Horse Society Trotting Futurity for two-year-olds, an event that Rowe won as owner/driver consecutively with Dorothy Riddell (1953), Flash Riddell (1954) and Bert Riddell (1955). Van Riddell’s great reputation as a champion trotter was followed by an outstanding career as a sire. Before his death in 1971 at the age of 28, Van Riddell pro
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