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From The Diary of
FRANCIS T. GREENE
Red Flower didn’t look too good when I looked at her on my way to work the Monday morning after the Piedmont race.
Suzie Ford (than whom I know few better horsewoman) suggested returning her twoyear-old stable mate who had been left out with the other rough horses. So we promptly did this.
Also Suzie said not to do a thing with the mare but walk and graze her and try to freshen her up. I agreed with her 100%, so all the mare did from Monday ’til Friday was to walk and graze off a lead shank.
As a result by Friday when I
(Editor’s Note: This excerpt recalls the fifth running of the Middleburg Bow! at Cherry Hill Farm near Aldie on March 29, 1941. Mr. Greene had raced his mare, Red Floiver, at the Piedmont Hunt point-to-point at Paul Mellon's Rokeby Farm the precious week and she had fallen at one fence and banged herself badly on several others.)
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