Eureka Downs Mid July 2007
Optimism reigns, at least for the moment. Pristine track Saturday at Eureka Downs for the breezes of the two twelve year olds. Two good weeks of weather and five straight breezes along with our sporadic June stuff and the older horses are coming to hand. One breezed a mile Saturday, the other 5/8, with Mr. Nob the rider all excited, but in fact both horses performed as expected. Nob hopefully will be down to the magic 155 lbs. for the works at Eureka next Saturday, and we can start letting them out a bit to racing speed.
Do I get injuries? Hardly ever. Of course, as Richard Mandella laments in "On the Muscle", the horses know. They always wait till you get close to racing. Nob reported a slight almost imperceptible limp from Aylward coming off the track Sat. This actually has been going on for a while since the late June rains, and since I'm unable to find anything I'm thinking hoof bruise or abscess. We'll see. And, our huge horse, Acesmash, after last night's gallop was showing spongy tendons. Jeez. Whittingham--you wait for horses or they'll make you wait for them--we'll have to back off big Ace just a bit after the cadillac breeze Thurs. The tendons were back tight this morning, but, have to be careful here.
The Eureka trip Saturday went like clockwork, more efficient now that we're into a routine. It's still difficult to travel with horses 350 miles without some excitement. This time it waited till we had returned at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning when I hopped out of the truck to shoo away some horses and to my horror left the transmission in drive. I somehow managed to jump back in and stop the rig two yards before it would have crashed into the gate and let the four horses out on the highway in pitch black dark. Better luck than this fellow i snapped on the way to Eureka. Left click and you'll see the truck in the ditch.
and, this was the scene driving into Eureka Saturday at 7:20 p.m. They'd predicted stray strong thunderstorms. Luckily it held off and I can save sticking my head in a bucket for another day.
Art's Training:
Yes, he's still around. Our two year old. We're expecting him to finally move forward the next two weeks after the May-June hoof problems.
Fri. 7/13/07: Off
Sat. 7/14/07: 4 x 3f riderless snappy with oldster. Tack work.
Sun: 7/15/07: 10 min walk under tack only.
Do I get injuries? Hardly ever. Of course, as Richard Mandella laments in "On the Muscle", the horses know. They always wait till you get close to racing. Nob reported a slight almost imperceptible limp from Aylward coming off the track Sat. This actually has been going on for a while since the late June rains, and since I'm unable to find anything I'm thinking hoof bruise or abscess. We'll see. And, our huge horse, Acesmash, after last night's gallop was showing spongy tendons. Jeez. Whittingham--you wait for horses or they'll make you wait for them--we'll have to back off big Ace just a bit after the cadillac breeze Thurs. The tendons were back tight this morning, but, have to be careful here.
The Eureka trip Saturday went like clockwork, more efficient now that we're into a routine. It's still difficult to travel with horses 350 miles without some excitement. This time it waited till we had returned at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning when I hopped out of the truck to shoo away some horses and to my horror left the transmission in drive. I somehow managed to jump back in and stop the rig two yards before it would have crashed into the gate and let the four horses out on the highway in pitch black dark. Better luck than this fellow i snapped on the way to Eureka. Left click and you'll see the truck in the ditch.
and, this was the scene driving into Eureka Saturday at 7:20 p.m. They'd predicted stray strong thunderstorms. Luckily it held off and I can save sticking my head in a bucket for another day.
Art's Training:Yes, he's still around. Our two year old. We're expecting him to finally move forward the next two weeks after the May-June hoof problems.
Fri. 7/13/07: Off
Sat. 7/14/07: 4 x 3f riderless snappy with oldster. Tack work.
Sun: 7/15/07: 10 min walk under tack only.
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3 Comments:
Why no workout pics or times?
well, yaaa, i'll try to be more blog aware in coming trips. it's a tightrope getting everything done before dark once we get there. hopefully i'll figure out how to post this camcorder soon!
As to w/o times, we're a little ways from that. present goal is to adjust cannon bones to the hard surface and get the distance. I estimate they did a 1:50 mile and 1:10 5/8. Both were to get the distance and do respectively 2f and 4 f of near racing speed between was the plan. Both ran out of gas 2f from the end.
txs for the comment. we'll be more time conscious this coming week.
Ok, thanks. I was just curious. I am really interested in the details of your method and was curious as to the exact goal of the trips and purpose. Thanks for clarifying.
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