Friday Night Workouts

Post the workouts while they're on my mind. These were the workouts that cancelled the Sunday Eureka trip, and RR being quite ok with that. We're going Monday instead. This was "breeze" night at the farm, and we'd planned fairly easy heats with plans to go a little harder at Eureka Sunday. The first horse Groovin' Wind (above) scotched the "plans" when without any urging at all from Nob conducted (according to Nob) the fastest, strongest workout ever at the farm. Wind after warm up went 4 x 2.5f all out as our little course with tight turns and up and down hills permits with the horse weakening at all only the last 1/2 furlong of the last heat. And, there were no rests between the gallop downs and trot back to the starting point. It was really one continuous impressive exercise, so much so that the horse needs two days rest before breezing again. We'll gallop Wind light Sunday, and a mile at about 1:47 planned Monday at Eureka.

Aylward, the other 12 year old also did the 4x2.5f as asked, but Nob says this horse is showing much less acquisition through his workouts than Wind and basically is at where he was 3 weeks ago. Showing some age? Maybe.

Art:
7/18/07 Wed. Off.
7/19/07 Thurs: riderless two miles straight slow and 10 min tack work.
7/20/07 Fri: riderless after warm up 4 x 1f at about 85% speed and 10 min walk under tack.

I love this picture. Ugly rider, ugly horse.