Duplicating Mandella

Here is Pleasantly Perfect (blinkers) in full drive. The seventeen hand stallion now stands at Lane's End for $30,000.00. PP retired as the leading money winner in throughbred racing history. He's by Pleasant Colony out of an Affirmed mare and was purchased for $725,000.00 at the yearling sales. Trainer: Richard Mandella.

Can we duplicate the training of Pleasantly Perfect? A little Dale Carnegie, if you want to be successful, do what successful people do, as follows:

Horse Care: exceptional instead of creative.
Farrier: Best farrier on the grounds.
Vet: The best vet around.
Leg Wrapping: state of the art.
Riders: Hall of Fame Jocks and experienced light weight exercise riders.
Exercise Prescriptions: estimate-- three days out of seven slow gallops and a breeze of some sort per week. Let's say we'll breeze most but not all weeks with a sequence roughly as follows: 3f :36, 4f :49, 7f: 1:30 finishing up strong. Then three or four days rest. repeat. race.
Intangibles: Lot's of energy, thought, and leadership of the shedrow. Things go on schedule. Trainer broods in his concentration on his horses. Adequately innovate in a conservative sort of way. The training is deliberate instead of "off the cuff".
Problems: Mandella's work produces horse problems and injuries. See the DVD.

Is the above achievable? Am I talking myself into Mandella training? Mandella has an obvious rider advantage. I'm unable to conjure Mike Smith and Alex Solis hustling out of the woodwork to gallop my horses in company. But, perhaps, uuumm...a little organization with fellow trainers, motivate the available jocks, might take an extra penny or too here or there, throw in a horse with a bit of talent, and we might get reasonably close.

And so... given Mandella's success, for the next post: why do anything else?

Today's Y training, we're back in business:
Thurs. 12/21/06: rest
Frid: 12/22/06: rest.
Sat. 12/23/06: 10 min trot-slow gallop riderless work in the muddy paddock. strenghtening only. And then, Day Four under tack. horse today refused to move today. Given the three days off and because I want to avoid landing face down in the mud, I let it go, and we'll try again tomorrow.