Weather Again
A little bit of a tired blog tonight, but, wanted to catch up on training and conditions, and hopefully this will be back on track by tomorrow. In my office today I'm going through the horse racing version of "they don't just give you the money". After they pay, we work, and hence less time for the blog.
The weather, what can I say. Another horrendous forecast. It's getting to the point this may affect two year old racing. All plans revised. Was just looking at a post from mid-December as to how far we were in training then. We're behind December 15 at the moment. Very frustrating!
Down to 1 degree in a day or so. 1.5 inches of rain today before the freeze will make for less than ideal ground conditions in the next days. But, lest the blog become one big weather complaint, we forge ahead.
On the positive side, the fence is 1/4 up in the Astride Paddock, and the past few days training has gone pretty well given the conditions. Translate that we have been able to get in some exercise.
2/10/07 rest
2/11/07 Warmer. The paddock was soft wet ground on top of the melting ice. The horses looked like they were ice skating. Hardly ideal, but, they seemed to handle it ok.
12-13 min of riderless mostly gallop. Nice work given the conditions. News Flash: the blog predicted Art would be walking without assistance under tack about the 20th under tack session. This day was it, and Nob in fact walked the horse around the paddock with the help of a horse buddy who volunteered to walk along. Lasted about 10 min. Nob reports the horse responds to stopping and starting, but turning seems to be a challenge. And, he was ok with the bit instead of playing with it, which is progress. All in all, an encouraging day.
2/12/07: light rain most of the day. by the time i got to the farm about half an inch had fallen. it was warmer and the ice underneath had melted. So, we had mud to run in and did so riderless for 10 min. Nice hard workout. About 4f heats as snappy as the mud allowed with brief rests between. The older horses would have gone on, but with the youngster we need the rest to rest the tendon and sesamoids until conditioning improves. Skipped tack work in the rain. Failed to get closer to the track this week, but, at least avoided going backwards as we were able to get some exercise every day.
The weather, what can I say. Another horrendous forecast. It's getting to the point this may affect two year old racing. All plans revised. Was just looking at a post from mid-December as to how far we were in training then. We're behind December 15 at the moment. Very frustrating!
Down to 1 degree in a day or so. 1.5 inches of rain today before the freeze will make for less than ideal ground conditions in the next days. But, lest the blog become one big weather complaint, we forge ahead.
On the positive side, the fence is 1/4 up in the Astride Paddock, and the past few days training has gone pretty well given the conditions. Translate that we have been able to get in some exercise.
2/10/07 rest
2/11/07 Warmer. The paddock was soft wet ground on top of the melting ice. The horses looked like they were ice skating. Hardly ideal, but, they seemed to handle it ok.
12-13 min of riderless mostly gallop. Nice work given the conditions. News Flash: the blog predicted Art would be walking without assistance under tack about the 20th under tack session. This day was it, and Nob in fact walked the horse around the paddock with the help of a horse buddy who volunteered to walk along. Lasted about 10 min. Nob reports the horse responds to stopping and starting, but turning seems to be a challenge. And, he was ok with the bit instead of playing with it, which is progress. All in all, an encouraging day.
2/12/07: light rain most of the day. by the time i got to the farm about half an inch had fallen. it was warmer and the ice underneath had melted. So, we had mud to run in and did so riderless for 10 min. Nice hard workout. About 4f heats as snappy as the mud allowed with brief rests between. The older horses would have gone on, but with the youngster we need the rest to rest the tendon and sesamoids until conditioning improves. Skipped tack work in the rain. Failed to get closer to the track this week, but, at least avoided going backwards as we were able to get some exercise every day.
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