Conventional Training--The Bad II

This blog will continue to specialize in Derby Winner's Circle Celebrations as it helps us practice for our own upcoming appearance. You may recognize the dapper dresser in the middle with the gray hair in celebration of his 10-1 long shot grandson of Secretariat named Charismatic winning the '99 Derby. RR has trained a few grandsons of Secretariat, and so can identify. Lukas was quoted that Charismatic taught him something. "I'm always learning", said Lukas, and in this case it was that the horse like to work hard, which later proved prophetic about what you might expect from conventional trainers who suddenly decide to work their horses. But, more on Charismatic at a later date.

How ironic is it that Lukas, 20 years into his thoroughbred training career, decides to "work" a horse harder--this is D. I don't W.ork horses Lukas(see Staaden), and the horse confounds his trainer and everybody else by taking the Derby. Who would have thought? Charismatic's Derby win also coincides with my observation of a brief renaissance of the Lukas stable "because" he was working his horses. The breezes started showing up on the work tabs in this period, they were a little longer and faster. This was the time Lukas was bragging about giving Point Given two mile gallops. We may surmise that by 2003 Lukas went back to his prior routine and has been in decline since.

(under construction. another RR rant deleted.)