Thanksgiving Day

November 23, 2006. Thanksgiving Day. I give thanks these days for the simple things. As everything around seems in chaos and under attack. But, the weather has been great. Everybody including Ronald Reagan's ghost is going to get serious about global warming. But right for the present 70 degrees is pretty good training weather for Nov. 23, even if it's a little warm on the horses with their light winter coats.

While this blog is hardly ready for prime time, eventually if Y does anything at the track it may get some attention. I intend the blog to be a discussion of thoroughbred race training, for there seem no others on the net as is. There are so many things involved. For example, this evening i'm searching the internet for a feed supplement, if there is one, that has something other than iron as its main ingredient. Check your favorite horse multivitamin--dime to a dollar the main ingredient is iron. Since horses already get more than enough iron in their feed--that feed stores also add ferrous sulfate, wth do we need all this iron in the supplements?--but that is a wth for another day.

I'll continue the Is Y a Prospect theme tomorrow. Today's training involved merely 10 min of trot-lope in the warm part of the day. They never took off and i am at this point quite content to have such a light day between the hard ones at this stage of development. Also did some saddle work--more bellying. Yet to get a protest out of my horse, knock on wood.