Another DFN

Still working on the next training post. Thanks to KH for the comment on the last post on different hats worn by the trainer. Worth reading! Lol on the million dollar horse. Reminds me of sitting in the track kitchen at Prairie Meadows in the early nineties with Robin Kellerwho was a veteran Nebraska trainer of few words. In comes an owner with gold chains and sits down at our table. He want's Robin's opinion. "What should I do with my $35,000.00 horse? There is this long long pause and Keller's two word response: "sell him". Sage advice!

Today's Art workout:
1/7/07 very light trot gallop and tack work
1/8/07 ten min riderless snappy gallop in 3f heats in the mud. Tack work.
1/9/07 Breeze day: we got away completely from Astride work over the long rain related off period. So, at the moment we're riderless. Want to control it today, so, we do it riderless in the paddock despite the mud. After warm up probably got 5 x 1f at about 90% speed. Worried about doing more related to sesamoids in this heavy footing.
Tack Work--Session 12: Nob volunteers that we need to have the horse held and get in some serious work before the weather comes in Friday. Agreed. So we got the neighbor to lead the horse with Nob on. Nob got off periodically, but, we did a lot of walking, and this was the first day with extensive bridle work. The horse was of course fighting the bit a little, and Nob kept expecting him to jump five feet in the air. Never happened. Worked with him about 20 min. We'll repeat tomorrow and should then be close to graduating to kindergarden.