Conventional Training--Why Do Anything Else?

One of my moments in horse racing is that look on McGaughey's face in that Breeder's Cup tape of Personal Ensign winning the 1988 Distaff. If one judges character, this guy seems an oak.

Why do anything at all different than the trainer of Easy Goer, Lure, Heavenly Prize, Vanlandingham, and Personal Ensign (pictured)? RR is being other than facetious here. Why? and Why again?

Let me preface that it would be so easy! Considering that we're doing P. Burch training and sending Art out to breeze every three days, the idea of instead doing a few leisurely open gallops a week and conjuring up a breeze every 10 days to two weeks sounds like a nice vacation on a tropical island. What the conventional trainers do compared to Burch is so much less rigourous, strenuous, and costly on equine and human as to boggle the mind. Since RR would prefer to take the path of least resistance to the winner's circle, we have to purposefully reject conventional training exemplified by such as Shug McGaughey before launching into anything else.

For this post I'll only pose the question. An analysis will follow. But, now on to our subject, the two year old now nicknamed "Art".

12/31/06 Rest
1/1/07 some light trot gallop under the Astride. Nob got on him under tack, but was afraid to move. Lost two front shoes.
1/2/07 Rest. We now have the first minor crisis with the new horse. I noted yesterday the 4th loss of the front shoes since October. I've yet to look at the hoofs, but know the condition is that the shoes will fail in this mud. We have the prospect of keeping them off for two weeks and resting the horse or doing something. Note we are unable to do any significant work without shoes for risk of bruising which will in this wet weather abscess for sure. Mandella on his DVD talks about breezing horses barefoot. Don't believe it.

I did nothing with the horse today because i'm figuring what to do. This morning I ordered Equilox from Breeder's Supply in Lexington and Size 5 racing plates and small nails, all equipment Nob the shoer lacked when I bought the horse. When the stuff arrives, one way or another I'll have Nob Equilox (rebuild) the hoof wall where it's torn away. We'll lose a couple more days, which I hate, but, we're between a rock and a hard place without front shoes, so we'll have to wait.