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RIDDLE FARM
The Last Days at Riddle Farm In the early years Riddle Farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in Worcester County gained notoriety because of a horse that was breaking all the records. That horse was "Man-O-War". Though he was never entered in the Kentucky Derby, Man-O-War won 20 of the 21 races he entered. Man-O-War won the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, beating that year’s winner of the Kentucky Derby. Man-O-War retired in 1910, and continued to set records by siring more than 400 foals. Of those foals, over 200 would go on to be champions with War Admiral, being the most famous, winning the 1938 Triple Crown. His owner, Samuel D. Riddle, transformed a large portion of farmland which runs along Route 50 to Herring Creek on the eastern side and from Route 707 adjacent to Route 50 on the southern boarder to Turville Creek on the north boundary, northeast of Berlin, into one of the most impressive horse farms on the entire peninsula. The Riddle property encompassed 1600 acres abutting the two creeks and, in fact 600 acres were on the north bank of Turville Creek where Gum Point Road is today. These photographs are truly the Last Days at Riddle Farm. I took these photographs in the winter and spring of 2002 and 2003 just as work on a new golf course community was starting.
